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letter I send you a copy, that you may know what you carry; and may take of Mr. Matthew the letter itself; if you pleased to undertake the delivery. Lastly, I do commend to yourself, and such your courtesies as occasion may require, this gentleman Mr. Matthew, eldest son to my Lord Bishop of Durham, and my very good friend; assuring you that any courtesy, you shall use towards him, you shall use to a very worthy young gentleman, and one, I know, whose acquaintance you will much esteem. And so I ever continue.

A Letter to Mr. Davis then gone to the King, at his first Entrance.

Master Davis,

Though you went on the sudden, yet you could not go before you had spoken with yourself, to the purpose, which I will now write. And therefore I know it shall be altogether needless, save that I meant to shew you that I was not asleep. Briefly, I commend myself to your love and the well using my name; as well in repressing and answering for me, if there be any biting or nibbling at it in that place; as by imprinting a good conceit and opinion of me, chiefly in the king (of whose favour I make myself comfortable assurance); as otherwise in that court. And not only so, but generally to perform to me all the good offices, which the vivacity of your wit can suggest to your mind, to be performed to one, with whose affection you have so great sympathy; and in whose fortune you have so great inSo desiring you to be good to concealed poets, I

terest.

continue.

A Letter to Mr. Faules, 28 Martii, 1603.
Mr. Faules,

I did write unto you yesterday, by Mr. Lake (who was dispatched hence from their lordships,) a letter of revivor,

:

of those sparks of former acquaintance between us in my brother's time and now upon the same confidence, finding so fit a messenger, I would not fail to salute you; hoping it will fall out so happily, as that you shall be one of the king's servants, which his majesty will first employ here with us: where I hope to have some means not to be barren in friendship towards you. We all thirst after the king's coming, accounting all this but as the dawning of the day, before the rising of the sun, till we have his presence. And though now his majesty must be Janus Bifrons, to have a face to Scotland as well as to England, yet" Quod nunc instat agendum:" The expectation is here, that he will come in state and not in strength. So for this time I commend you to God's goodness.

A Letter to Mr. Robert Kempe upon the Death of Queen Elizabeth.

[Inserted in this Vol. p. 25.]

A Letter to my Lord of Northumberland, mentioning a Proclamation drawn for the King, at his Entrance.

[Inserted in this Vol. p. 103.]

A Letter to the Earl of Southampton upon the King's Coming in.

It may please your Lordship,

I would have been very glad, to have presented my humble service to your lordship by my attendance, if I could have foreseen that it should not have been unpleasing unto you. And therefore, because I would commit no error, I chose to write; assuring your lordship how credible soever it may seem to you at first, yet it is as true as a thing that God knoweth; that this great change hath

wrought in me no other change towards your lordship than this; that I may safely be now that which I was truly before. And so craving no other pardon, than for troubling you with my letter, I do not now begin to be, but continue to be,

Your Lordship's humble and much devoted.

A Letter to the Earl of Northumberland, after he had been with the King.

It may please your good Lordship,

I would not have lost this journey, and yet I have not that I went for. For I have had no private conference to purpose with the king. No more hath almost any other English for the speech, his majesty admitteth with some noblemen, is rather matter of grace than matter of business; with the Attorney he spake, urged by the Treasurer of Scotland, but no more than needs must. After I had received his majesty's first welcome, and was promised private access, yet not knowing what matter of service your lordship's letter carried (for I saw it not), and well knowing that primeness in advertisement is much, I chose rather to deliver it to Sir Thomas Heskins than to cool it in mine own hands upon expectation of access. Your lordship shall find a prince the furthest from vain glory that may be; and rather, like a prince of the ancient form than of the latter time: his speech is swift and cursory, and in the full dialect of his country, and in speech of business short, in speech of discourse large he affecteth popularity, by gracing such as he hath heard to be popular, and not by any fashions of his He is thought somewhat general in his favours; and his virtue of access is rather because he is much abroad and in press than that he giveth easy audience. He hasteneth to a mixture of both kingdoms and occasions, faster per

own.

haps than policy will well bear. I told your lordship once before that (methought) his majesty rather asked counsel of the time past than of the time to come. But it is yet early to ground any settled opinion. For the particulars I refer to conference, having in these generals gone further, in so tender an argument, than I would have done were not the bearer hereof so assured. So I continue, etc.

A Letter to Mr. Pierce, Secretary to the Deputy of Ireland.

Master Pierce,

I am glad to hear of you as I do; and for my part, you shall find me ready to take any occasion to further your credit and preferment: and I dare assure you (though I am no undertaker,) to prepare your way with my Lord of Salisbury, for any good fortune which may befall you. You teach me to complain of business, whereby I write the more briefly; and yet I am so unjust, as that which I allege for mine own excuse, I cannot admit for yours. For I must by expecting, exact your letters with this fruit of your sufficiency, as to understand how things pass in that kingdom. And therefore, having begun, I pray you continue. This is not merely curiosity, for I have ever (I know not by what instinct) wished well to that impolished part of this Crown. And so with my very loving commendations, I remain.

A Letter to the King, upon presenting the Discourse touching the Plantation of Ireland.

[Inserted in this Vol. p. 73.]

A Letter to the Lord Chancellor touching the History of Britain.

[Inserted in this Vol. p. 69.]

A Letter to the King upon the sending unto him a beginning of a History of his Majesty's Times. [Inserted in this Vol. p. 68.]

A Letter to the Earl of Salisbury, upon sending of his Books of Advancement of

him one

Learning.

[Inserted in this Vol. p. 73.]

A Letter to the Lord Treasurer Buckhurst upon the like Argument.

[Inserted in this Vol. p. 78.]

A Letter of the like Argument to the Lord Chancellor.

[Inserted in this Vol. p. 79.]

A Letter of like Argument to the Earl of Northampton, with request to present the Book to his Majesty,

[Inserted in this Vol. p. 79.]

A Letter of Request to Dr. Playfer to translate the Book of Advancement of Learning into Latin. [Inserted in this Vol. p. 80.]

A Letter to Sir Thomas Bodley upon sending him his Book of Advancement of Learning.

[Inserted in this Vol. p. 82.]

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