160 LETTERS FROM THE RESUSCITATIO. 



greatest opposition her majesty granted me, I would never 

 trouble her majesty, but serve her still voluntarily without 

 pay. Neither do I in this more than obey my friends 

 conceits as one that would not be wholly wanting to myself. 

 Your lordship s good opinion doth somewhat confirm me 

 as that I take comfort in above all others; assuring your 

 lordship that I never thought so well of myself for any one 

 thing as that I have found a fitness to my thinking in myself 

 to observe and revere your virtues; .for the continuance 

 whereof in the prolonging of your days I will still be your 

 beadsman ; accordingly, at this time, commend your lord 

 ship to the divine protection. 



To Foulk Grevil. 



Sir, 



1 understand of your pains to have visited me, for which 

 I thank you. My matter is an endless question. I assure 

 you, I had said, &quot; requiesce anima mea ;&quot; but now I am 

 otherwise put to my psalter, &quot; nolite confidere,&quot; I dare 

 go no farther. Her majesty had by set speech more than 

 once assured me of her intention to call me to her service ; 

 which I could not understand but of the place I had been 

 named to. And now, whether &quot; invidus homo hoc fecit,&quot; or 

 whether my matter must be an appendix to my Lord of 

 Essex suit, or whether her majesty pretending to prove my 

 ability, meaneth but to take advantage of some errors, 

 which, like enough, at one time or other I may commit, 

 or what it is, but her majesty is not ready to dispatch it. 

 And what though the Master of the Rolls and my Lord of 

 Essex, and yourself and others think my case without 

 doubt, yet in the mean time I have a hard condition to 

 stand so, that whatsoever service I do to her majesty it 

 shall be thought to be but &quot; servitium viscatum,&quot; lime-twigs 

 and fetches to place myself; and so I shall have envy not 

 thanks. This is a course to quench all good spirits, and to 



