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Show 86 To my Lord ofE[ex. To my Lord of Bffex! My Lord, . . . COnceiving that your LordpJrp, came now up-, tn the perfon of a good Servant, to fee your Sorz;erai!.n Mijtrif; which kinde of Complements, are many times, Injlar magno·tum Meritorum; And therefore, that it would be hard fur me, to find you, I have committed, to this poor Paper, the humble Salutations of him, that is more yours, than any Mans; And more yours, than any Man. To rhe(e Salutations, I add, a due, and joyfull Gratulation, confeffing that your Lordfhip,in your.lafi conference with me, before your Journey, fpake nor in vain, God making it good; That you trilfted, we {hould fay, !l.!!_,if putaffet t Which, a·s it is found true, in a happy fenfc, fo I wi~b, yo~ doe not find, an?thcr !2.!!,if putaffet, in the manner, of takmg, th.ls fo gre~t a Servtce. Bur, I hope, it is, as he faid; Nubuulaefl, ctto tranfthtt : And that your Lordfbips Wifdom, and Obfequious Ci:cumfpecrion, an~ Patience, will turn all to the beft. So refernng all, to fome ume, that I may attend you, I commit you to Gods heft prcfervation. . To my Lord oJEffex. MyLord, . I Am glad, your Lordfhip, hath plunged,out of your own builncfs. VVhcrtin, I muft commend yQur Lordfhip, .as Xmophon commended, the State, of his Country; .which was th~s; 7hat barz;ing tho(en, the worft Form of Go'L'ernmmt, of aU. othtrs? they grtJtrntd the heft, in that kinde.· Ho,,Pau, et Vmia tua, accordmg to tpy·d1artn-. Now, as your Lordfhip is my W itnefs,that I would nof irouble'you, whilfi your own Caufc was in hand~ (Though that I know, that the further from the Term,thc better the time, was to deal for me;) So that being concluded,~ prefum~,l fhall be one,of your next C~res. And having communicated wuh my Brother,of fame courfc,etthcr , w perfit the firft,or to make me fomeother way; Or rather,by feeming to make me fome other way, to perfit the firft, wherewith he agreed to acquaint your Lordfhip; I am defirous; for mine own better fatisfaetion, to fpeak with your Lordfhip, my felt; Which I had rather, were fomewhere elfe, than at Court; And as foon , as your L.ordfhip, well affign me, to wait on you. And fo in, &c. 7D . To Sir John Stanhope. To Sir Rob-ert Cecil. sIR., your Honour kno~cth? my M~nner is, though it be not the wi- . . feLl w~ y, yet t~klllg 1t for the honeftefl:, to doe, as Alexander dtd,, b):' h1s Phyficta!l.; In drinking the Medicine, and deliverin the Advertifemmt,of Su{pttton : So I ~rufi: on, and yet do not [matter, what I h~ar.. I doe aifure you, Str) th~t by a wife Friend of mine, ~nd no.t f~crtous toward your Honour, I was told_; with a£feverati-flj O'chat your Honour, was boug~t, by Mr. Coventry, for 2 ooo. Anods ; And that you ~roughr, 111 a contrary fpirit, to.my Lord your _Father. And he fa1d further, that from your Servants, from your Lady, from fome ('ounfeUour1 that havcobferved you 1n my ,buiinefs, h~ knew, you wrought, .under hand; again1t me. The truth of whtch ~ale~ I doe not believe; you know rhe Event will iliew, and God wlll rtght. But as I rejecr this Report (though the Strang~nefs of my Cafe; might tnake me credulous;)' [o I admit a Conc~1t, ~hat the laft Mdfenger, my Lord, and your felfufed, dealt_ .iJl Wlt~ your Honours; And that VVord,(speculation,)which wa~ In the f2!!:eens mouth , rebounded from him, as a Commendation : For I a1"? not ign~rant, of thofe little Atts. Therefore,! . pray, ~ull: not h1m agam, Ill my tnatter. This was much to write bur I t~~k my Fortune, will fer me at liberty , who am weary of affcrvlltng my Self, to every Mans charity. Thus-!, &c. -------· -------------------------------- To Sir John Stanhope• SIR, your good promi(es ficep, which it may (tern, now, no time to awake •. .But that I doe not finde, that any general Kalender of Obfcrvat~on of time,ferverh fot the Court: Andbefides, if tha; be done, wh1eh I hope, by this time, is done; And that other matter fhall be done, which we wifh tnay be done, I hope to my poor Matter, . t~eoneofthefegrett Matters, may dear the way~ and the other gtve the Occafion. And though my Lord Treafurer be abfent; whofe Health, neverthdeffe, will enable him, to be fooner at Court, t.han is expctled; efpecially .if this hard weather, (t?O ha~~ to contwue,) fhall relent; yet we abroad fay, his Lord- Jhtps fptnt may be there, though his perfon be away. Once I tal~e f~r a goo~ ground, that her M~jejlies.Bufinefs, ough_t to keep, ne1tlu:r Vacauon, nor Holyday; either m the Execut1011, or in th: Care and preparation, of thofe? whom ~er Majeftj calleth,and ufnh : And therefore, I would thmk, no ume barred from re.;; . I tne:mbring that, with fuch difcretion, and ref pea, a; appertai-~ . M tnm 2 neth ·- - ~~--------~---------------~ |