236 CHARGE AGAINST ROBERT 



therein I think I expressed myself fully to his 

 majesty in one of my former letters ; and I know 

 well any expectation or thought abroad will do 

 much hurt. But yet the glimmering of that which 

 the king hath done to others, by way of talk to him, 

 cannot hurt, as I conceive ; but I would not have 

 that part of the message as from the king, but 

 added by the messenger as from himself. This I 

 remit to his majesty s princely judgment. 



For the person, though he trust the lieutenant 

 well, yet it must be some new man : for, in these 

 cases, that which is ordinary worketh not so great 

 impressions as that which is new and extraordinary. 



The time I wish to be the Tuesday, being the 

 even of his lady s arraignment ; for, as his majesty 

 first conceived, I would not have it stay in his sto 

 mach too long, lest it sour in the digestion ; and to 

 be too near the time, may be thought but to tune 

 him for that day. 



I send here withal the substance of that which I 

 purpose to say nakedly, and only in that part which 

 is of tenderness ; for that I conceive was his ma 

 jesty s meaning. 



It will be necessary, because I have distributed 

 parts to the two Serjeants, as that paper doth ex 

 press, and they understand nothing of his majesty s 

 pleasure of the manner of carrying the evidence 

 more than they may guess by observation of my ex 

 ample, which they may ascribe as much to my na 

 ture as to direction ; therefore that his majesty 

 would be pleased to write some few words to us all, 



