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and hand to the recovery of the young gentlewoman ; 

 and then written both to us and to him what incon 

 venience appeared to you to be in such a match ; 

 that had been the part indeed of a true servant to 

 us, and a true friend to him. But first to make an 

 opposition ; and then to give advice by way of 

 friendship, is to make the plow go before the horse. 

 Thus leaving all the particulars of your carriage, 

 in this business, to the own proper time, which is 

 ever the discoverer of truth, we commend you to 

 God. Given under our signet at Nantwich, in the 

 fifteenth year of our reign of Great Britain, etc. 



SIR HENRY YELVERTON, ATTORNEY-GENERAL, TO THE 

 LORD KEEPER BACON. 



MY MOST WORTHY AND HONOURABLE LORD, 



I DARE not think my journey lost, because I have 

 with joy seen the face of my master, the king, though 

 more clouded towards me than I looked for. 



Sir Edward Coke hath not forborne, by any en 

 gine, to heave at your honour, and at myself; and 

 he works by the weightiest instrument, the earl of 

 Buckingham, who, as I see, sets him as close to him 

 as his shirt, the earl speaking in Sir Edward s praise, 

 and, as it were, menacing in his spirit. 



My lord, I emboldened myself to assay the tem 

 per of my lord of Buckingham to myself, and found it 

 very fervent, misled by information, which yet I find 

 he embraced as truth, and did nobly and plainly tell 



