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Show \ A Letter to the LordTreafurer Burghley, ---- . levied, lipan the Poorer fort : Though orhrrwi[e, I wifhed it ds · tiling, as I think this will-prove, and n1ore. Th1_s was my mtn , I contdfe it. And thcreiore, I 1no£t humbly pray, you~ good Lordfuip; Firfi, to continue me in your ow~1 g<?od Opuuon; And then, to rcrform the part, of an Hon?urabte Fru.nd, ~owar~s your poor Servant, and .Allr~nce ; . I~ drawmg he:r MaJe fl), to accept, of the Sincerity, and Sunpltcuy,of_ my Htart ;_ And to beat~ with the refi:, and rdlore Inc, to htr Ma;efius Favour· .A Letter to ·the Lord T reafurer Burgh ley, recomm!ndi~ hu firp Suce, toucbing the S ollicitors place. .After th( remembrance of my moft humble Duty, THough I know, by late Experience, how mindful! your ~or~fhip vouchfafeth to be of tne, and my poor ~ortuncs ; fince It pleafed your Lordfhip, during your Ind1fpofiuo~, when her Maje~ y came, to viiit your Lordjbtp, to m~ke ment~on of me, for my Eniploymenr, and prefcnl;}ent; .Yet b~mg now 111 the Countrey, I do prcfumc, that your Lord/!Jrp, wn? o~your Self, had fo Honourable care of.the matter_, w1ll not th1nk 1t a Trouble,_ to be follicited thc.rein. My hope ~9, tha whereas your Lordfhrp _told me, her Majefty was f01newhat gravelled, up?n the Offence, fhe took, at my speech in Par.'iPment, your LordfhtpJ favourable, and good word, (who hath a{fured me,that for your own par~, you conUrued, that I fpake, to the beil:,) will be as a good Tt~e, .to ~emove her froln that shelf. And it is not unknown to your /Jordfhlp, th.at · I was the firft, of the Ordinary. Sort, of the Lo-n:er Houft·, of Parlt~ment, that fpake for the Subji4y; And that, wl:lCh I attc_r f pake tn diff .. rence, was but in C ircumftances of Tune, a dl Man~er, which methinks iliould be no great Matter, fince the. 1s Vanety allowed in CouJtJ[el, as a Difcord in Mufick, tO 1nak~. lt .more perf~ 61:. But I may juftly doubt, not [o tn~Kh her M~Je{ttts Impreffion, upon this particular, as her Concett, otherw1~ , of ~y I~lfufficiency 1 which thougi I acknowle~ge to be~great, yet tt will be thelc:{fe, becaufe I purpofe, not to dtvtd my felf, between her Mafefty, and the Cau[eso[ other Mrn, ( as others bave done,) but ·tO attend her Bufine:{fconly; Hoping, that a whole Man, m_canly able, may doe as well as Half a Man , better ab!c. And tf her Mafe~y think, that tbc fhallmake an A~\venrurc,m u~r gone, t~at is rather a Man ofSruJy, than ofPra~tlC ,and Expcncnce; Surely, I may remember, to have heard, t~1at n1y Father, ( a.~ ~xa}11 -. I ple I confdlc', rather R~ady, than L1ke; was mad~ soUsc-ttor or \ !the' Augmmtation, (a Court of much Bufine:{fc,) when he h.ad n~'- lver praCticed, and was but 27 years old: And Mr. Bro!l.ra11e~ w~ts now in my t~mc, called tO be Atturney of the Dutchy, when hc.lw.d \ 1 ' pra[tt[<:d, ~ --~· ~------------~---- I ' A Letter to IJ.aeen Elizabeth, &c. \--3 _., praB:iied, _li~tle, or nothing: And yet difchargcd his place, with great Suffictency. But the[e Thtngs, and the like, are, as her Majclly iliall be made capable of them : wherein, knowing what f Authority, your Lord {hips Cotnmendadon, hath with her Majesty, I conclude with rny Self, that the St1bfi:ance of Strength, wnich I may receive, will be from your Lordfhip. It is true, my Life hath bern fo privatr,as I have had no means,to do your Lordj! Jif_ fervice; but yet, as your Lordfhip knoweth, I have:: made otli r, offuch, as I could yidd: For as Goa',hath giv n me a mind,to love the Pub/ick; [o incidently, I have ever had yotlr Lordfhip, in fingular Adtniration; whofe)1appy Ability, her Mai~~y hath fo long uied, to her great Honour, and yours. Befides, that Amend. ment, of State, or Countenance, which I have received, hath been from your Lordfhip. And therefore, if your Lordfhip iliall ftand, a good Friend, to your poor Allie, you {hall but Tueri Opm proprium, which you have begun. And your Lordfhip, iliall bcfiow your benefit upon one, that hath 1nore fenfe of Obligation, than of Self-love. Thus humbly deftring pardon, of fo long a Letter, I witb your Lordfhip all Happine:ffc. This 7th of June, I 59 5 • 4. Le~ter to Qgeen Elitabeth~ •pon the fenJing of a . N ew~years Gift. It may pleafe your Ma jefi:y, . ACcording to the Ceremony, of the Time, I would not fbrget, in all hmnblene:ffe, to prefent your Majefty, with a [lnall Newyears Gift: Nothingtomy Mind. And thereforetofupply it, I can but pray to God, to give your Majefty, his 1Vew·years G~ft; that is, a New year, that iliafl be, as no year, to your Body; And as a year, ~ith 2. H arvefts to your Coffers ; And every other way_, profperous, and gladfom. And fo I ren1ain. d. Letter to Qgeen Elizabetltl, 'up9n the fending of a · New-years Gift. Mofl exceUent Soveraign Mifiris, · THe ooely New-yearr Gift,which I can give your Maieflie,is tbat.1 'Yhich csod hath given rome: which is, a Mind, in all Humbleneffe., to wait upon your Cun1mande[)lents, and Bnfine:ffe: Whrr in I would to God, that I were hooded, that l faw le£fe; Or, that 1 could perfonn more; For now I am like a Hawk, that bates, when I fe_e occafion of fervicc, but cann0t fly, becau[e I am · ' t~ed ' I |