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return. For you shall make the queen s felicity 

 complete, which now, as it is, is incomparable : and 

 for yourself, you shall shew yourself as good a 

 patriot as you are thought a politic, and make the 

 world perceive you have not less generous ends, 

 than dextrous delivery of yourself towards your ends ; 

 and that you have as well true arts and grounds of 

 government, as the facility and felicity of practice 

 and negociation ; and that you are as well seen in 

 the periods and tides of estates, as in your own circle 

 and way : than the which, I suppose, nothing can be 

 a better addition and accumulation of honour unto 

 you. This, I hope, I may in privateness write, either 

 as a kinsman, that may be bold : or as a scholar, that 

 hath liberty of discourse, without committing any ab 

 surdity. But if it seem any error in me thus to 

 intromit myself, I pray your honour to believe, I 

 ever loved her majesty and the state, and now love 

 yourself; and there is never any vehement love 

 without some absurdity, as the Spaniard well says : 

 &quot; desuario con la calentura.&quot; So desiring your 

 honour s pardon, I ever continue. 



CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING THE QUEEN S SERVICE IN 

 IRELAND. * 



THE reduction of that country, as well to civility 

 and justice, as to obedience and peace, which things, 

 as affairs now stand, I hold to be inseparable, con- 

 sisteth in four points : 



1. The extinguishing of the relicks of the war. 



* Resuscitatio, 264. 



