MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS. Gl 



Upon me the labour must lie of his establishment, and 

 upon me the disgrace will light of his being refused. There 

 fore I pray your lordship, now account me not as a solicitor 

 only of my friend s cause, but as a party interested in this ; 

 and employ all your lordship s favour to me, or strength 

 for me, in procuring a short and speedy end. For though 

 I know, it will never be carried any other way, yet I hold 

 both my friend and myself disgraced by this protraction. 

 More I would write, but that I know to so honourable and 

 kind a friend, this which I have said is enough. And so I 

 commend your lordship to God s best protection, resting, 

 At your Lordship s commandment, 



[No date.] ESSEX. 



A Letter to Dr. Morison,* a Scottish Physician, 

 upon /his Majesty s coming in. 



Mr. Doctor Morison, 



I have thought good by this my letter to renew this my 

 ancient acquaintance which hath passed between us, signi 

 fying my good mind to you, to perform to you any good 

 office, for your particular, and my expectation, and a firm 

 assurance of the like on your part towards me : wherein I 

 confess you may have the start of me, because occasion 

 hath given you the precedency in investing you with op 

 portunity to use my name well, and by your loving testi 

 mony to further a good opinion of me in his majesty, and 

 the court. 



But I hope my experience of matters here will, with the 

 light of his majesty s favour, enable me speedily both to 

 requite your kindness, and to acquit and make good your 

 testimony and report. So not doubting to see you here 

 with his majesty, considering that it belongeth to your art 

 to feel pulses, and I assure you Galen doth not set down 

 greater variety of pulses than do vent here in men s hearts, 

 I wish you all prosperity, and remain 



Yours, &c. 



From my Chamber at Gray s Inn, &c. 1603. 



* He had held a correspondence with Mr. Anthony Bacon, and was em 

 ployed to find intelligence from Scotland to the Ea.rl of Essex. See Memoirs of 

 the Reiyn of Queen Elizabeth, from the year 1581 till her death, vol i. p. 79, 

 109, 116. 



