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again, I know he hath the best tutor in Europe. But 

 yet I was afraid, that the height of his fortune might 

 make him too secure ; and as the proverb is, a 

 looker-on sometimes seeth more than a gamester. 



For the particular part of a true friend, which 

 your majesty witnesseth, that the earl hath lately 

 performed towards me, in palliating some errors of 

 mine ; it is no new thing with me to be more and 

 more bound to his lordship ; and I am most humbly 

 to thank, whatsoever it was, both your majesty and 

 him ; knowing well, that I may, and do commit 

 many errors, and must depend upon your majesty s 

 gracious countenance and favour for them, and shall 

 have need of such a friend near your majesty. For I 

 am not so ignorant of mine own case, but that I 

 know I am come in with as strong an envy of some 

 particulars, as with the love of the general. 



For my opposition to this business, which, it 

 seemeth, hath been informed your majesty, I think 

 it was meant, if it be not a thing merely feigned, and 

 without truth or ground, of one of these two things ; 

 for I will dissemble nothing with your majesty. It is 

 true, that in those matters, which, by your majesty s 

 commandment and reference, came before the table 

 concerning Sir Edward Coke, I was sometimes sharp, 

 it may be too much ; but it was with end to have 

 your majesty s will performed ; or else, when me- 

 thought he was more peremptory than became him, 

 in respect of the honour of the table. It is true also, 

 that I disliked the riot or violence, x whereof we of 

 your council gave your majesty advertisement by our 



