Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 89Being vpon the ſight of this letter prepared to ſayle into England, he ſate in counſaile at Dub|lyn,Thomas Fitz Girald. and hauing ſent for his ſonne and heyre the Lorde Thomas Fitz Giralde (a yong ſtripling of xxj. yeares of age, borne in England, ſonne to the Lorde Souch his daughter, the Erle of Kyl|dare his firſte wife) in the hearing of the whole boorde thus he ſpake.

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Sonne Thomas, I doubt not, but you know that my ſoueraigne Lord the King,Kildare his ex+hortation to his ſonne the L. Thomas. hath ſent for me to Englande, and what ſhall beſyde me, God knoweth, for I know not. But howſoeuer it falleth, both you and I know, that I am well ſtept in yeares: and as I may ſhortly die, for that I am mortal, ſo I muſt in haſt deceaſe, bicauſe I am olde. Wherefore in as much as my Wynter is well neare ended, and the Spring of your age nowe buddeth, my will is that you behaue your ſelfe ſo wiſely in theſe your greene yeares, as that to the comfort of your friendes, you may enioy the pleaſure of your Sommer, gleane and reape the fruite of your Harueſt, that with honour you may growe to the catching of that hoarie Win|ter, on whiche you ſee me your father faſt pric|king.

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And whereas it pleaſeth the king his Maie|ſtie, that vpon my departure here hence, I ſhoulde ſubſtitute in my rowme ſuche one, for whoſe go|uernment I woulde anſwere: albeit I knowe, that your yeares are tender, your wit not ſettled, your iudgement not fully rectified, and therefore I myght bee with good cauſe reclaymed, from putting a naked ſworde in a yong mans hande: yet notwithſtanding, foraſmuch as I am your father, and you my ſonne, I am well aſſured to beare that ſtroke with you in ſteering your ſhip, as that vpon any information I may commaunde you as your father, and correct you as my ſonne