caſe) hee was contented to be counſelled by that faithfull and louing friende of his, and cloſely tooke the money (that in fine doth all) and payde it, and ſo departed. For if he had continued in that fooliſh reputation of him ſelfe ſtill, and had dwelled in his obſtinacie, he had perhaps dearly bought the price of his follye. It may peraduenture ſeeme to your Maieſtie that I paſſe the boundes of modeſtie, if I ſhould open to your highneſſe my meaning hereby. I come as your Maieſtie's humble and faithfull ſeruaunt, and true friend, to tell your Maieſtie that I am ſorie to ſee you go no more abrode a hunting, a walking, and ſporting yourſelfe at your pleaſure as you were woont, but that you keepe your Pallace ſtil with malancholie, which was not your woont I knowe. Well, I ſtande nowe before your highneſſe readie to ſpende my life and goods in your ſeruice and quarell: and if I might knowe your griefe, I make no doubt at all but I woulde labour ſo, that your Maieſtie mould be ſatisfyed, and lyke of my ſeruice. If you be troubled for any matter concerning the ſtate, or any other thing of importaunce: your highneſſe muſte impart it with a fewe of your faithfull ſeruants, and ſuch as you truſt beſt. And although they be of the meaner ſort, yet they maye ſerue your Maieſtie with hartie looue
