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&quot; operation upon the states abroad than it any ways 

 &quot; received from thence ;&quot; merely saying f Rursus 

 regnum faeminae solitaria? et ccelibis. Whatever 

 were the motives by which he was induced to sup 

 press, for a time, the just praise of Elizabeth, he 

 ordered the publication in a will, which, he after 

 wards cancelled, but, in all probability, after some 

 understanding with Dr. Rawley, that the publication 

 should appear, as it did, soon after his death. This 

 appears from Rawley s account.* &quot; I thought it 

 &quot; fitting to intimate, that the discourse, within con- 

 &quot; tained, entitled, A Collection of the Felicities of 

 &quot; Queen Elizabeth ; was written by his lordship 

 &quot; in Latin only : whereof, though his lordship had 

 (( his particular ends then ; yet in regard that I 

 &quot; held it a duty, that her own nation, over which 

 &quot; she so happily reigned for many years, should 

 &quot; be acquainted and possessed with the virtues 

 &quot; of that excellent queen, as well as foreign na- 

 &quot; tions, I was induced, many years ago, to put 

 &quot; the same into the English tongue ; not ad 

 &quot; verbum, for that had been but flat and inju- 

 &quot; dicious ; but, (as far, as my slender ability 

 * could reach,) according to the expressions which 

 &quot; I conceived his lordship would have rendered 

 &quot; it in, if he had written the same in English : yet 

 &quot; ever acknowledging that Zeuxes, or Apelles 

 &quot; pencil could not be attained, but by Zeuxes, or 



* Preface to the Resuscitatio. 

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