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answer : howbeit, she said, she would assure me, 

 that whatsoever she did should be towards my lord 

 &quot; ad castigationem, et non ad destructionem ;&quot; as 

 indeed she had often repeated the same phrase be 

 fore : whereunto I said, to the end utterly to divert 

 her, &quot; Madam, if you will have me speak to you 

 &quot; in this argument, I must speak to you as Friar 

 &quot; Bacon s head spake, that said first, Time is and 

 &quot; then Time was ; and Time will never be : for 

 &quot; certainly, said I, it is now far too late, the matter is 

 &quot; cold, and hath taken too much wind.&quot; Whereat she 

 seemed again offended, and rose from me ; and that 

 resolution for a while continued : and after, in the 

 beginning of Midsummer term, I attending her, and 

 finding her settled in that resolution, which I heard 

 of also otherwise, she falling upon the like speech ; 

 it is true, that seeing no other remedy, I said to her 

 slightly, &quot; Why, madam, if you will needs have a 

 &quot; proceeding, you were best have it in some such 

 &quot; sort as Ovid spake of his mistress ; e est aliquid 

 &quot; luce patente minus ; to make a council-table mat- 

 &quot; ter of it, and there an end :&quot; which speech again 

 she seemed to take in ill part ; but yet I think it did 

 good at that time, and helped to divert that course of 

 proceeding by information in the Star-chamber. 

 Nevertheless, afterwards it pleased her to make a 

 more solemn matter of the proceeding ; and some 

 few days after, an order was given that the matter 

 should be heard at York-house, before an assembly 

 of counsellors, peers, and judges, and some audience 

 of men of quality to be admitted : and then did some 



