LETTERS FROM THE RESUSCITATIO. 187 



majesty command me in any particular I shall be ready to do 

 her willing- service; and my reason is only because itdrinketh 

 too much time, which I have dedicated to better purposes. 

 But even, for that point of estate and means I partly lean 

 to Thales opinion, &quot; that a philosopher may be rich if he 

 will.&quot; Thus your lordship seeth how I comfort myself; to 

 the increase whereof I would fain please myself to believe 

 that to be true which my Lord Treasurer writeth, which is, 

 that it is more than a philosopher morally can digest; but 

 without any such high conceit, I esteem it like the pulling 

 out of an aching tooth, which I remember when I was a 

 child, and had little philosophy, I was glad of when it was 

 done. For your lordship, I do think myself more beholding&quot; 

 to you than to any man ; and 1 say I reckon myself as a 

 common, (not popular but common,) and as much as is law 

 ful to be enclosed as a common, so much your lordship shall 

 be sure to have 



Your Lordship s to obey your honourable com 

 mands more settled than ever. 



To my Lord of Essex. 



My singular good Lord, 



Your lordship s so honourable minding my poor fortune 

 the last year in the very entrance into that great action, 

 (which is a time of less leisure,) and in so liberal an allow 

 ance of your care as to write three letters to stir me up 

 friends in your absence; doth, after a sort, warrant me not 

 to object to myself your present quantity of affairs, whereby 

 to silence myself from petition of the like favour I brake 

 with your lordship myself at the Tower, and I take it my 

 brother hath since renewed the same motion touching a 

 fortune I was in thought to attempt &quot; in genere econo- 

 mico.&quot; &quot; In genere politico,&quot; certain cross winds have 

 blown contrary. My suit to your lordship is for your several 

 letters to be left with me dormant, to the gentlewoman, and 



