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long ago cursed this action with the curse that the 

 psalm speaketh of, &quot; That it should be like the un 

 timely fruit of a woman, brought forth before it 

 came to perfection,&quot; so disposed above, that her ma 

 jesty, understanding by a general charm and mut 

 tering of the great and universal resort to Essex- 

 house, contrary to her princely admonition, and 

 somewhat differing from his former manner,, as there 

 could not be so great fire without some smoke, upon 

 the seventh of February, the afternoon before this 

 rebellion, sent to Essex-house Mr. Secretary Her 

 bert, to require him to come before the lords of her 

 majesty s council, then sittting in council at Salis 

 bury-court, being the lord treasurer s house : where 

 it was only intended, that he should have received 

 some reprehension, for exceeding the limitations of 

 his liberty, granted to him in a qualified manner, 

 without any intention towards him of restraint; 

 which he, under colour of not being well, excused 

 to do : but his own guilty conscience applying it, 

 that his trains were discovered, doubting peril in any 

 farther delay, determined to hasten his enterprise, 

 and to set it on foot the next day. 



But then again, having some advertisement in 

 the evening, that the guards were doubled at court, 

 and laying that to the message he had received over 

 night ; and so concluding that alarm was taken at 

 court, he thought it to be in vain to think of the en 

 terprise of the court, by way of surprise : but that 

 now his only way was, to come thither in strength, 

 and to that end first to attempt the city : wherein 



