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unto me. How thankful I am for it cannot better be ex 

 pressed by me than by a firm resolution I have taken ; first, to 

 read it thorough with care and attention, though I should 

 steal some hours from my sleep, having otherwise as little 

 spare time to read it as you had to write it. And then, to 

 use the liberty of a true friend in not sparing to ask you the 

 question in any point where I shall stand in doubt ; &quot; Nam 

 ejus est explicare cujus est condere ;&quot; as, on the other part, 

 I will willingly give a due commendation to such places as in 

 my opinion shall deserve it. In the meantime, I can with 

 comfort assure you, that you could not have made choice of 

 a subject more befitting your place, and your universal me 

 thodic knowledge ; and in the general, I have already observed, 

 that you jump with me in taking the mid way between the 

 two extremes ; as also in some particulars I have found that 

 you agree fully with my opinion. And so praying God to 

 give your work as good success as your heart can wish, and 

 your labours deserve, I bid you heartily farewell. 



JAMES HEX. 

 October 16, 1620. 



To my Lord of Essex. 



My singular good Lord, 



I may perceive, by my Lord Keeper, that your lordship, 

 as the time served, signified unto him an intention to confer 

 with his lordship at better opportunity ; which in regard of 

 your several and weighty occasions I have thought good to 

 put your lordship in remembrance of; that now at his 

 coming to the court it may be executed ; desiring your 

 good lordship, nevertheless, not to conceive out of this my 

 diligence in soliciting this matter, that I am either much in 

 appetite or much in hope. For as for appetite, the waters 

 of Parnassus are not like the waters of the spa that give a 

 stomach, but rather they quench appetite and desires ; and 

 for hope, how can he hope much that can allege no other 



