[1] Which being perceiued of cardinall Wolseie, then archbishop of Yorke, he tooke him into his ser|uice, and making him his solicitor, imploied him about businesse oftentimes of most importance, wherein he acquited himselfe with such dexteritie, as answered alwaies the credit committed to him. Af|ter the cardinals fall;Thomas Cromwell in most au|thoritie vnder the king. he was aduanced to the kings seruice, behauing himselfe so aduisedlie in matters which he tooke in hand, that within a small time he rose to high authoritie, and was admitted to be of the priuie councell, bearing most rule of all other vnder the king, as partlie ye haue heard: so that by him it well appeared, that the excellencie of heroicall ver|tues, which aduance men to fame and honor, resteth not onelie in birth and bloud, as a priuilege appro|priate and alonelie annexed vnto noble houses, but remaineth at the disposition of almightie God the gi|uer & disposer of all gifts, who raiseth the poore manie times from the basest degrée, and setteth him vp with princes, according to the saieng of Ecclesiastes:

Qui iacuit tetro quandóque in carcere vinctus,

Parta suis meritis regia sceptra tulit.