*286 MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS 



&quot; and the other is your own ministers.&quot; And thus 

 I end the second main part I propounded to speak 

 of ; which was, the balancing of the forces between 

 the king s majesty and the king of Spain, if a war 

 must follow. 



THE FIRST COPY OF MY DISCOURSE TOUCHING THE 

 SAFETY OF THE QUEEN*S PERSON.* 



THESE be the principal remedies, I could think of, 

 for extirpating the principal cause of those conspi 

 racies, by the breaking the nest of those fugitive 

 traitors, and the filling them full of terror, despair, 

 jealousy, and revolt. And it is true, I thought of 

 some other remedies, which, because in mine own 

 conceit I did not so well allow, I therefore do forbear 

 to express. And so likewise I have thought, and 

 thought again, of the means to stop and divert as 

 well the attempts of violence, as poison, in the 

 performance and execution. But not knowing how 

 my travel may be accepted, being the unwarranted 

 w jshes of a private man, I leave ; humbly praying 

 her majesty s pardon, if in the zeal of my simplicity 

 I have roved at things above my aim. 



THE FIRST FRAGMENTS OF A DISCOURSE, TOUCHING INTEL 

 LIGENCE, AND THE SAFETY OF THE QUEEN S PERSON.f 



THE first remedy, in my poor opinion, is that 

 against which, as I conceive, least exception can be 



* From the original in the Lambeth Library, 

 f From the original in the Lambeth Library. 



