122 THE REPLY OF THE SQUIRE. 



yet, you commissioner of Philautia, I will proceed one de 

 gree farther : if I allowed both of your assurance, and of 

 your values, as you have set them, may not my master en 

 joy his own felicity; and have all yours for advantage? I 

 do not mean, that he should divide himself in both pur 

 suits, as in your feigning tales towards the conclusion you 

 did yield him ; but because all these are in the hands of 

 his mistress more fully to bestow, than they can be attained 

 by your addresses, knowledge, fame, fortune. For the 

 muses, they are tributary to her majesty for the great liber 

 ties they have enjoyed in her kingdom, during her most 

 flourishing reign; in thankfulness whereof, they have 

 adorned and accomplished her majesty with the gifts of all 

 the sisters. What library can present such a story of great 

 actions, as her majesty carrieth in her royal breast by the 

 often return of this happy day ? What worthy author, or 

 favourite of the muses, is not familiar with her ? Or what 

 language, wherein the muses have used to speak, is un 

 known to her? Therefore, the hearing of her, the observing 

 of her, the receiving instructions from her, may be to Ero- 

 philus a lecture exceeding all dead monuments of the muses. 

 For fame, can all the exploits of the war win him such a 

 title, as to have the name of favoured and selected servant 

 of such a queen ? For fortune, can any insolent politique 

 promise to himself such a fortune, by making his own way, 

 as the excellency of her nature cannot deny to a careful, 

 obsequious, and dutiful servant ? And if he could, were it 

 equal honour to obtain it by a shop of cunning, as by the 

 gift of such a hand ? 



Therefore Erophilus s resolution is fixed : he renounceth 

 Philautia, and all her enchantments. For her recreation, 

 he will confer with his muse ; for her defence and honour 

 he will sacrifice his life in the wars, hoping to be embalmed 

 in the sweet odours of her remembrance. To her service 

 will he consecrate all his watchful endeavours, and will 

 ever bear in his heart the picture of her beauty; in his 

 actions, of her will ; and in his fortune, of her grace and 

 favour. 



REMEMBRANCES FOR THE KING BEFORE HIS GOING INTO 

 SCOTLAND. 



May it please your Majesty, 



ALTHOUGH your journey be but as a long progress, and 

 that your majesty shall be still within your own land, and 

 therefore any extraordinary course neither needful, nor, in 

 my opinion, fit; yet, nevertheless, I thought it agreeable 



