LETTERS FROM THE RESUSCITATIO. 159 



travail in offence ; but surely, under her majesty s royal 

 correction, it is such an offence as it should be an offence to 

 the sun when a man to avoid the scorching heat thereof 

 flieth into the shade. And your lordship may easily think, 

 that having now these twenty years (for so long it is and 

 more, since I went with Sir Amyas Paulett into France, 

 from her majesty s royal hand) I made her majesty s service 

 the scope of my life : I shall never find a greater grief than 

 this, &quot; relinquere amorem primum.&quot; But since &quot; principia 

 actiouum sunt tantiim in nostra potestate ;&quot; I hope her 

 majesty of her clemency, yea, and justice, will pardon me, 

 and not force me to pine here with melancholy. For 

 though mine heart be good yet mine eyes will be sore, so 

 as I shall have no pleasure to look abroad, and if I should 

 otherwise be affected, her majesty in her wisdom will think 

 me an impudent man that would face out a disgrace ; there 

 fore, as I have ever found you my good lord and true friend, 

 so I pray open the matter so to her majesty as she may 

 discern the necessity of it, without adding hard conceit to 

 her rejection ; of which I am sure the latter I never de 

 served. Thus, etc. 



To the Lord Treasurer. 

 It may please your good Lordship, 

 I am to give you humble thanks for your favourable 

 opinion, which by Mr. Secretary s report I find you con 

 ceive of me for the obtaining of a good place which some 

 of my honourable friends have wished unto me, &quot; nee opi- 

 nanti.&quot; I will use no reason to persuade your lordship s 

 mediation but this, that your lordship and my other friends 

 shall in this beg my life of the queen ; for I see well the 

 bar will be my bier, as I must and will use it rather than 

 my poor estate or reputation shall decay ; but I stand indif- 

 rent whether God call me or her majesty. Had I that in 

 possession which by your lordship s only means against the 



