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answer, which yet, I know, your majesty would 

 always graciously admit; as to shew, that I have, 

 as I ought, weighed every word of your majesty s 

 letter. 



First, 1 do acknowledge, that this match of Sir 

 John Villiers is &quot; magnum in parvo&quot; in both senses, 

 that your majesty speaketh. But your majesty per- 

 ceiveth well, that I took it to be in a farther degree, 

 &quot; majus in parvo,&quot; in respect of your service. But 

 since your majesty biddeth me to confide upon your 

 act of empire, I have done. For, as the Scripture 

 saith, &quot; to God all things are possible ;&quot; so certainly 

 to wise kings much is possible. But for that second 

 sense, that your majesty speaketh of, &quot; magnum in 

 parvo,&quot; in respect of the stir ; albeit it being but a 

 most lawful and ordinary thing, I most humbly pray 

 your majesty to pardon me, if I signify to you, that 

 we here take the loud and vocal, and as I may call 

 it, streperous carriage to have been far more on the 

 other side, which indeed is inconvenient, rather than 

 the thing itself. 



Now for the manner of my affection to my lord 

 of Buckingham, for whom I would spend my life, 

 and that which is to me more, the cares of my life ; 

 I must humbly confess, that it was in this a little 

 parent-like, this being no other term, than his lord 

 ship hath heretofore vouchsafed to my counsels ; but 

 in truth, and it please your majesty, without any 

 grain of disesteem for his lordship s discretion. For 

 I know him to be naturally a wise man, of a sound 

 and staid wit, as I ever said unto your majesty. And 



