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say the word your Lordship will make good the same. 

 My humble suit, therefore, to your Lordship is, but to 

 tell me freely whether you will be my friend in all 

 things honourable, just, and fitting ; and when I ask 

 of your Lordship anything contrary to either of these, 

 then do not only deny it me, but spit in my face, 

 having afforded me only patience first to give you my 

 reasons. 



&quot; Nothing, I am confident, can set an obstacle to 

 your Lordship s granting me this reasonable request, 

 but an apprehension of the obnoxiousness of my reli 

 gion, as for that, such are my abilities to serve not only 

 my Prince but the whole kingdom, that when once 

 known in Parliament, and his Majesty looking but as 

 favourably upon me as the tenth part of my deserts 

 (pardon me if I say so) doth require, I will undertake, 

 within few days, there shall be a vote in the very House 

 of Commons to make me capable of any service where 

 of I may be thought worthy. Another Eemora doth 

 perhaps forcibly lie in the way, which is my son the 

 Lord Herbert s underhand working by false sugges 

 tions ; but I shall soon blow them over. In a word, if 

 your Lordship please to accept of me, I am the most 

 real and affectionate servant, and as a little token of 

 it, be pleased to accept of Worcester House to live in, 

 far more commodious for your Lordship than where 

 you now are, though not in so good reparation ; but 

 such as it is, without requiring from you one penny 

 rent (yet that only known between your Lordship and 

 me). It is during my life at your service, for I am but 

 a tenant in tail ; but were my interest longer, it should 

 be as readily at your Lordship s command, and I be 

 lieve I may serve you in some things of ten times the 

 value; yet I never desire word or deed from your 

 Lordship other than according to what I first began 



