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My Lorde, although hatred be commonly the handmayden of truth, bycauſe we ſee hym, that plainely expreſſeth his minde, to be for the more part of moſt men diſliked: yet notwithſtã|ding I am ſo well aſſured of your Lordſhip his good inclination towardes me, and your Lord|ſhip ſo certaine of mine entire affection towardes you, as I am emboldned, notwithſtanding this companie of armed men, freely and franckly to vtter that, which by me declared, and by youre Lordſhip folowed, wil turne God willing, to the auayle of you, your friends, alies, & this coũtrey.

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I doubt not, my Lord, but you know, that it is wiſdome for any man to looke before he leape, and to ſowne the water before his ſhip hul ther|on, and namely where the matter is of weight, there it behoueth to follow ſounde, ſage and ma|ture aduiſe. Wherefore, my Lorde, ſithe it is no Maygame, for a ſubiect to leuie an armye a|gainſt his prince: it lyeth your Lordſhip in hand to breath longer on the matter, as well by fore|caſting the hurt whereby you may fall, as by re|uoluing the hope wherewith you are fed. What ſhould moue your Lordſhip to this ſodaine at|tempt, I know not. If it be the death of your fa|ther, it is as yet but ſecretly muttered, not mani|feſtly publiſhed. And if I ſhould graunt you, that your zeale in reuenging your father his execu|tion were in ſome reſpect to be commended: yet reaſon would you ſhould ſuſpend the reuẽge vn|til the certaintie were knowne. And were it, that the report were true, yet it ſtandeth with the du|tie and allegeance of a good ſubiect (from whom I hope in God,The ſubiects dutie towards his king. you meane not to diſſeuer your ſelfe) not to ſpurne and kicke againſt his prince, but contrariewiſe, if his ſoueraigne be mightie, to feare him: if he be profitable to his ſubiects, to honour him: if he commaunde, to obey him: if he be kinde, to loue him: if he bee vicious, to pitie him: if he be a Tyrant, to beare with him, conſidering that in ſuche caſe it is better wyth pacience to bowe, than with ſtubburnneſſe to breake. For ſacred is the name of a king, and odious is the name of a rebellion:The name of a king ſacred. the one from heauen deriued, and by God ſhielded, the other in hell forged, and by the Diuell executed.Rebellion frõ whence it ſpringeth. And therefore who ſo wyll obſerue the courſe of Hy|ſtories, or weigh the Iuſtice of God in puni|ſhing malefactours, ſhall eaſily ſee, that albeit the Sunne ſhyneth for a tyme on them that are in Rebellion, yet ſuche ſweete beginnings are at length claſped vp with ſharpe and ſowre endes.

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Now that it appeareth, that you ought not to beare armoure agaynſt your King, it reſteth to diſcuſſe whether you bee able, although you were willing to annoy your King. For if a|mong meane and priuate foes it be reckened for a folly in a ſecrete grudge to profeſſe open ha|tred, and where hee is not able to hynder, there to ſhewe a willing mynde to hurte: muche more ought your Lordſhippe in ſo generall a quarell as thys, that concerneth the King, that toucheth the Nobilitie, that apperteyneth to the whole common wealth, to foreſee the King his power on the one ſide, and your force on the o|ther, and then to iudge if you bee able to cocke with him, and to put hym beſide the Cuſhion, and not whyleſt you ſtriue to ſit in the Saddle, to loſe to your owne vndoyng, both the Horſe and the Saddle.