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Aim: God hath Madam put you into a happey, and florishing 

 condition, fitt and able to serue God, and to doe much good to your 

 selfe and others ; and your LadysP makes your selfe unhappey, by 

 seeming not to bee contented with your condition but troubling your 

 spiritts with many thoughts of attayning to greater dignityes and 

 riches. 



Madam all those that wish you well, are greeued to see your 

 LadysP to bee allready soe much disturbed, and weakened in your 

 iudgment and in danger to loose the right use of your reason, if you 

 doe not tymely endeauor to preuent it, by ceasing to goe one with 

 such high designes, as you are vppon, which I declare to you, in the 

 faith of a Priest to bee true : The cause of your present distemper, 

 and of the aforesayed danger, is doubtlesse, that your thoughts and 

 imagination are very much fixed on the title of Plantaginet, and of 

 disposing your selfe for that greate dignity by getting of greate sums 

 of money from the King, to pay your deceased Lords debts, and 

 enriching your selfe by the great Mashine, and the like. Now 

 Madam how vnproper such undertakeings are for your L. and how 

 vnpossible for you to effect them, or any one of them, all your friends 

 can tell you if the please to discover the trueth to you. 



The ill effects that flow from hence are many : as the danger of 

 looseing your health and iudgment by such violent application of 

 your fancies in such high designes and ambitious desires ; the proba 

 bility of offending Aim. God and preiudising your owne soule 

 thereby : the advantage you may thereby give to those who desire 

 to make a pray of your fortune, and to rayse themselues by rueuing 

 you : the spending greate sums of money in rich and sumptuous 

 things, wh ch are not suteable to the gravity of your LadysP and 

 present condition of &quot;Widdow-hoode and mourning for your deceased 

 Lord. 



Although it bee certine, that it is a greate temptation which you 

 are now vnder, and very dangerous and hurtfull both to your tempo- 

 rail and eternall happynesse ; yett I confisse that the Divel, to make his 

 suggestion the more preualent, doth make vse of some motives that 

 seeme plausible,as of paying your Lords debs, of founding monasteryes, 

 and the like, and that your LadysP hath the Kings favour to carry 

 one your designes. But Madam it is certine that the King is offended 

 with your comeing to the Court, and much more with your preten- 

 tion to the title of Plantaginet ; and it is dangerous to provoke him 

 any farther : And for paying of debts, and founding of Monasteryes, 

 wee all know that your L. can neuer bee in a better condition to doe 

 it, then now you are ; and as you are not bound to doe such things, 



