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reason than the reason of an evil debtor, who will persuade 

 his creditor to lend him new sums, and to enter further in 

 with him to make him satisfy the old? And to her majesty 

 no other reason but the reason of a waterman ; I am her 

 first man of those who serve in counsel of law. And so I 

 commit your lordship to God s best preservation. 



To my Lord of Essex. 

 My Lord, 



Conceiving that your lordship came now up in the person 

 of a good servant to see your sovereign mistress; which 

 kind of compliments are many times &quot; instar magnorum 

 meritorum ;&quot; and therefore that it would be hard for me to 

 find you, I have committed to this poor paper the humble 

 salutations of him that is more yours than any man s ; and 

 more yours than any man. To these salutations I add a 

 due and joyful gratulation, confessing that your lordship, in 

 your last conference with me before your journey, spake 

 not in vain, God making it good, that you trusted we 

 should say, &quot; quis putasset?&quot; Which, as it is found true in 

 a happy sense, so I wish you do not find another &quot; quis 

 putasset,&quot; in the manner of taking this so great a service ; 

 but I hope it is as he said, &quot; nubecula est cito transibit;&quot; and 

 that your lordship s wisdom and obsequious circumspection 

 and patience will turn all to the best. So referring all to 

 some time that I may attend you, I commit you to God s 

 best preservation. 



To my Lord of Essex. 



My Lord, 



I am glad your lordship hath plunged out of your own 

 business .; wherein I must commend your lordship as Xeno- 

 phon commended the state of his country, which was this : 

 that having chosen the worst form of government of all 



