A LETTER TO MR. SECRETARY CECIL, 



AFTER THE * DEFEATING OF THE SPANISH FORCES IN IRE 

 LAND ; INCITING HIM TO EMBRACE THE CARE OF 

 REDUCING THAT KINGDOM TO CIVILITY, 

 WITH SOME REASONS SENT INCLOSED. 



It may please your honour, 



As one that wisheth you all increase of honour ; 

 and as one that cannot leave to love the state, what 

 interest soever I have, or may come to have in it ; 

 and as one that now this dead vacation time hath 

 some leisure &quot; ad aliud agendum ;&quot; I will presume 

 to propound unto you that which though you cannot 

 but see, yet I know not whether you apprehend and 

 esteem it in so high a degree ; that is, for the best 

 action of importation to yourself, of sound honour 

 and merit to her majesty and this crown, without 

 ventosity and popularity, that the riches of any oc 

 casion, or the tide of any opportunity, can possibly 

 minister or offer : and that is the causes of Ireland, 

 if they be taken by the right handle. For if the 

 wound be not ripped up again, and come to a 

 recrudency by new foreign succours, I think that no 

 physician will go on much with letting of blood, 

 ft in declinatione morbi ;&quot; but will intend to purge 

 and corroborate. To which purpose I send you 

 mine opinion, without labour of words, in the in 

 closed ; and sure I am, that if you shall enter into 

 the matter according to the vivacity of your own 

 spirit, nothing can make unto you a more gainful 



* Therefore this was wrote in 1601. Rowley s Resuscitatio, 58. 



