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Original Letters. 
cient or modern tjmrs, Accordini; to this 
critic, neither E-apiiael nor I\iichael An¬ 
gelo possessied his austere genius, nor 
that perfect taste of the ancients which 
has assigned to him- a peculiar pre-emi¬ 
nence in the history of his art. In short, 
we are told, that Poussin has produced 
nothing tiiat savours of mediocrity. 
The author terminates his discourse hy 
a short and brilliant passage, in vvhich he 
points out the analogy betweeen the im¬ 
mortal painter of the Deluge and Euda- 
niidas, and the sublime composer of The 
Cid and of Cinna. Tliis analogy 'is 
formed with a considerable degree of po¬ 
licy and art,as itis, doubtless, honourable 
to France,flattering to the society that was 
to decide on his own merits, as well as to 
the province in wliich it was pronoua- 
ced, and to which it was addressc'd. 
“ Happy Normandy ! felicitate thyself 
at having produced this immortal artist! 
felicitate thyself in having given birth to 
the two finest geniuses of which the French 
nation can boast, Peter Corneille and 
Nicholas Poussin, conr 64 iiporaries, and 
the wonder of their age; both, at that 
period, without equals in their native 
country, and both, even at tliis day, con¬ 
sidered as the first in their respective 
arts. 
ORIGINAL LETTERS. 
«/ SIR WALTER RALEIGH tO SIR ROBERT 
CECIL. 
Hi Bib. Har. Mvs. Brit. 
To the Right Honmirable isir Robert 
Ceci/ll, knight, Rrindpall Secretary 
to her Maje&tyc. 
SIR, 
AM not wyse enough to give you 
advise, but, if you take it for a good 
councell to relent towards this tiiant, 
you will repent it when it shall be to 
late. Kis mallice is fixt and will not 
evaporate by any your mild courses, for 
he will ascribe the alteration to her ma- 
jestie’s pusillanimitye and not to your 
good nature, kmnvinge that you worke 
butt uppon her iumior, and not out of 
any love towards hyme. The lesse your 
make hy me, the lesse he sha! be able to 
harm you and yours: and if her niajestie’s 
favor faill hyme, he will againe decline to 
a Cvimmon parson. For after-re«tnges 
secure them not, for your own father 
that was.esteemed to be the contriver of 
Norfolk’s rum, yet his soone follow'eth 
your father’s soone and loveth liim. 
Humors of men succeed not, but grow 
by occasions and accidents of tvme and 
powre. Somerseit made no revendge 
on the Duke of Northumberland’s heires. 
Northumberland, that now is, thinks not 
cf Hatton’s issew. Kellaway lives that 
murdered the brother of Horsey, and 
Horsey let hyme go by all his life tyrne. 
I could name you a thousand of thos, 
and therefore, after-feares are but pro- 
fesies, or rather cotijectures from caw’ses 
too remote. Looke to the present and 
you do wisely. His soowe shall be the 
youngest Earle ofinglande butt one, and, 
if his father be poyv keipt down, Wiii. 
Cecil shall be abell to kelp as many men 
att his heeles as he, and more to. Hq 
may also mache in a better howse than 
his: and so tliat feare is no worth the 
fearinge: but, if tjie father contineu, he 
will be able to break the branches and 
pull up the tree, root and all. Loose 
not your advantage. If you do, 1 rede 
your destinye. 
Your’s to 
W. Ralegh. 
Let the queen hn!d Bothwell while she 
hath hyme. He w'ill ever be the canker of 
lier estate and saufftye. Princes are lost by 
securitye and preserved by prevention. 1 
have seen the last of her good dayes and all 
ours after his libertye. 
Of SIR W'ALTER RALIEGHE to SIR ROBERT. 
CARRE, KNIGHT, ofterzcards earl of 
SOMERSET.* 
SIR, 
After 'manye great losses and manye 
yeare’s sorrowes, of both which I have 
cause to feare I was mistaken in the“r 
endes, it is come to my knowledge that 
yo*" selfe (whom I knowe not hut by an 
honorable fame) have bene persuaded to 
give me and myne o’' last fatal blowe, by 
obtayninge from his ma'*® the inheritance 
of my children and nephewes, lost in 
lawe for wante of wordes. This done 
tliere remayneth nothinge w’*’ me but 
the bare name of iiefe, dispoyled of all 
els but the tytle and soirowe thereof. 
His ma’‘®, whom I never offended (for f 
ever holde y* both unnaturall and un- 
manlye lo hate gopdness), stayed me at 
* Very erroneously printed in the Cabala^, 
p. ooo* X^nd. lio. 
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