150 LETTERS FROM THE RESUSCITATIO. 



instantly bleedeth; towards which I persuade myself 

 (vainly perhaps, but yet in mine own thoughts firmly and 

 constantly) that I shall give, when I am of the table, some 

 effectual furtherance (as a poor thread of the labyrinth, 

 which hath no other virtue but an united continuance without 

 interruption or distraction), I do accept of the former to 

 be councillor for the present, and to give over pleading at 

 bar; let the other matter rest upon my proof and his 

 majesty s pleasure, and the accidents of time. For to speak 

 plainly I would be loath that my Lord Chancellor, to whom 

 I owe most after the king and yourself, should be locked to 

 his successor for any advancement or gracing of me. So I 

 ever remain. 



Your true, and most devoted, 



and obliged servant. 



To his very Honourable good Friend, Sir George 

 Villiers, Master of the Horse to his Majesty, and 

 of the most Noble Order of the Garter, June 12, 

 1616. 



Sir, 



I send his majesty a draught of the act of council, con 

 cerning the judges letter ; penned as near as I could to his 

 majesty s instructions received in your presence. I then 

 told his majesty my memory was not able to keep way with 

 his, and therefore his majesty will pardon me for any omis 

 sion or errors, and be pleased to supply and reform the 

 same. I am preparing some other materials for his majesty s 

 excellent hand concerning business that is coming on. For 

 since his majesty hath renewed my heart within me me- 

 thinks I should double my endeavours. God ever preserve 

 and prosper you ; I rest. 



Your most devoted 



and bounden servant. 



