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Go on therefore chearf ully (my Lords and Gentle 

 men) and not onely our gracious King, but the King of 

 Kings, will reward you, the Prayers of the People will 

 attend you, and His Majesty will with thankful arms 

 embrace you. And be pleased to make use of me and 

 my endeavours to enrich them, not my self; such being 

 my onely request unto you, spare me not in what your 

 Wisdoms shall find me useful, who do esteem my self 

 not onely by the Act of the Water-commanding Engine 

 (which so chearfully you have past) sufficiently re 

 warded, but likewise with courage enabled to do ten 

 times more for the future ; and my Debts being paid, 

 and a competency to live according to my Birth and 

 Quality setled, the rest shall I dedicate to the service 

 of our King and Countrey by your disposals: and 

 esteem me not the more, or rather any more, by what 

 is past, but what s to come ; professing really from my 

 heart, that my Intentions are to out-go the six or seven 

 hundred thousand pounds already sacrificed, if coun 

 tenanced and encouraged by you, ingenuously confessing 

 that the melancholy which hath lately seized upon me 

 (the cause whereof none of you but may easily guess) 

 hath, I dare say, retarded more advantages to the 

 public service than modesty will permit me to utter : 

 And now revived by your promising favours, I shall 

 infallibly be enabled thereunto in the Experiments 

 extant, and comprised under these heads practicable 

 with my directions by the unparallel d Workman both 

 for trust and skill, Caspar Kaltoffs hand, who hath 

 been these five-and-thirty years as in a school under 

 me imployed, and still at my disposal, in a place by 

 my great expences made fit for publick service, yet 

 lately like to be taken from me, and consequently from 

 the service of King and Kingdom, without the least 

 regard of above ten thousand pounds expended by me, 



