LETTERS FROM THE RESUSCITATIO. 157 



others, they governed the best in that kind. &quot; Hoc pace et 

 venia tua,&quot; according to my charter. Now as your lord 

 ship is my witness that I would not trouble you whilst your 

 own cause was in hand, (though that I know that the fur 

 ther from the term the better the time was to deal for me) 

 so that being concluded I presume I shall be one of your 

 next cares. And having communicated with my brother of 

 some course either to perfit the first, or to make me some 

 other way ; or rather, by seeming to make me some other 

 way, to perfit the first, wherewith he agreed to acquaint 

 your lordship ; I am desirous, for mine own better satis 

 faction, to speak with your lordship myself, which I had 

 rather were somewhere else than at court ; and as soon as 

 your lordship will assign me to wait on you. And so in, etc. 



To Sir Robert Cecil. 



Sir, 



Your honour knoweth my manner is, though it be not 

 the wisest way, yet taking it for the honestest, to do as 

 Alexander did by his physician in drinking the medicine 

 and delivering the advertisement of suspicion ; so I trust 

 on and yet do not smother what I hear. I do assure you, 

 Sir, that by a wise friend of mine, and not factious toward 

 your honour, I was told with asseveration, that your honour 

 was bought by Mr. Coventry for 2000 angels ; and that 

 you wrought in a contrary spirit to my lord your father. 

 And he said further, that from your servants, from your 

 lady, from some counsellors that have observed you in my 

 business, he knew you wrought under hand against me. 

 The truth of which tale I do not believe ; you know the 

 event will shew, and God will right. But as I reject this 

 report, (though the strangeness of my case might make me 

 credulous,) so I admit a conceit that the last messenger my 

 lord and yourself used, dealt ill with your honours ; and 



