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but yet cannot avoid, without shew of base timorousness, 

 or else of unkind, or suspicious strangeness. 



Some hiatus in the copy. 



And I am of one spirit still. I ever liked the Galenists 

 that deal with good compositions, and not the Paracelsians, 

 that deal with these fine separations : and in music, I ever 

 loved easy airs, that go full all the parts together ; and not 

 these strange points of accord and discord. This 1 write 

 not, I assure your honour officiously, except it be according 

 to Tully s offices, that is, honestly and morally. For though, 

 I thank God, I account upon the proceeding in the queen s 

 service, or not proceeding both ways, and therefore neither 

 mean to fawn nor retire, yet I naturally desire good opinion 

 with any person which for fortune or spirit is to be regarded, 

 much more with a secretary of the queen s, and a cousin- 

 german, and one with whom I have ever thought myself to 

 have some sympathy of nature, though accidents have not 

 suffered it to appear. Thus not doubting of your honourable 

 interpretation and usage of that I have written, I commend 

 you to the divine preservation. From Gray s Inn. 



To my Lord of Essex. 



It may please your good Lordship, 



I pray God her majesty s weighing be not like the weight 

 of a balance, &quot; gravia deorsum, levia sursum.&quot; But I am as 

 far from being altered in devotion towards her as I am from 

 distrust that she will be altered in opinion towards me when 

 she knowethme better. For myself I have lost some opinion, 

 some time, and some means, this is my account : but then, 

 for opinion it is a blast that goeth and cometh; for time, it is 

 true, it goeth and cometh not; but yet I have learned that 

 it may be redeemed. 



For means, I value that most; and the rather, because I 

 am purposed not to follow the practice of the law: if her 



