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meaning, that her goodness was without limit, where there 

 was a true concurrence, which I knew in her nature to be 

 true. My lord, on the other side, had a settled opinion, 

 that the Queen could be brought to nothing but by a kind 

 of necessity and authority; and I well remember, when by 

 violent courses at any time he had got his will, he would 

 ask me : Now sir, whose principles be true ? And I would 

 again say to him: My lord, these courses be like to hot 

 waters, they will help at a pang ; but if you use them, you 

 shall spoil the stomach, and you shall be fain still to make 

 them stronger and stronger, and yet in the end they will 

 lese their operation : with much other variety, wherewith 

 I used to touch that string. Another point was, that I 

 always vehemently dissuaded him from seeking greatness 

 by a military dependence, or by a popular dependence, as 

 that which would breed in the Queen jealousy, in himself 

 presumption, and in the state perturbation; and I did 

 usually compare them to Icarus two wings which were 

 joined on with wax, and would make him venture to soar 

 too high, and then fail him at the height. And I would 

 further say unto him : My Lord, stand upon two feet, and 

 fly not upon two wings. The two feet are the two kinds 

 of justice, commutative and distributive: use your great 

 ness for advancing of merit and virtue, and relieving wrongs 

 and burdens, you shall need no other art or fineness : but 

 he would tell me, that opinion came not from my mind, 

 but from my robe. But this difference in two points so 

 main and material, bred in process of time a discontinuance 

 of privateness (as it is the manner of men seldom to com 

 municate where they think their courses not approved) 

 between his lordship and myself; so as I was not called 

 nor advised with for some year and a half before his lord 

 ship s going into Ireland, as in former time: yet never 

 theless, touching his going into Ireland, it pleased him 



