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trust, name, and sufficiency : but where there have 

 been great parts, there hath often wanted temper of 

 affection ; where there have been both ability and 

 moderation, there have wanted diligence and love of 

 travail ; where all three have been, there have some 

 times wanted faith and sincerity ; where some few 

 have had all these four, yet they have wanted time 

 and experience : but where there is a concurrence of 

 all these, there is no marvel, though a prince of 

 judgment be constant in the employment and trust 

 of such a servant. 



VII. Of divers particular untruths arid abuses 

 dispersed through the libel. 



The order which this man keepeth in his libel, is 

 such, as it may appear, that he meant but to empty 

 some note-book of the matters of England, to bring 

 in, whatsoever came of it, a number of idle jests, 

 which he thought might fly abroad ; and intended 

 nothing less than to clear the matters he handled by 

 the light of order and distinct writing. Having 

 therefore in the principal points, namely, the second, 

 third, and fourth articles, ranged his scattering and 

 wandering discourse into some order, such as may 

 help the judgment of the reader, I am now content 

 to gather up some of his by-matters and straggling 

 untruths, and very briefly to censure them. 



Page 9, he saith, that his lordship could neither 

 by the greatness of his beads, creeping to the cross, 

 nor exterior shew of devotion before the high altar, 

 find his entrance into high dignity in queen Mary s 



