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A36946	Arcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and courtier : to which is added Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favorites / by Sir Robert Naunton.; Traicté de la cour. English. 1694	Refuge, Eustache de, d. 1617.; Walsingham, Edward, d. 1663.; Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590.; Naunton, Robert, Sir, 1563-1635. Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth.	1694 (1694)	Wing D2686; ESTC R33418	106,428	275

he had very fine Attractions and being a good piece of a Schollar yet were they accompanied with the retractiveness of bashfulness and a natural Modesty which as the Tone of his House and the Ebbe of his Fortune then stood might have hindred his Progression had they not been re-inforced by the infusion of Soveraign Favour and the Queen 's Gracious Invitation And that it may appear how low he was and how much that Heretick Necessity will work in the dejection of good spirits I can deliver it with assurance that his exhibition was very scant until his Brother died which was shortly after his admission to the Court and then was was it no more than 1000 Marks per Annum wherewith he lived plentifully in a fine way and garb and without any great Sustentation during all her Times And as there was in his nature a kind of backwardness which did not befriend him nor suit with the motion of the Court so there was in him an inclinations to Armes and a humour of Travelling which had not some wise Men about him laboured to remove and the Queen her self laid in her commands he would out of his natural propension have marred his own market For as he was grown by reading whereunto he was much addicted to the Theory of a Souldier so was he strongly invited by his Genius to the acquaintance of the Practick of the War which were the causes of his excursions for he had a Company in the Low-Countries from whence he came over with a Noble acceptance of the Queen but somewhat restless in honourable thoughts he exposed himself again and again and would press the Queen with the pretences of visiting his Company so often that at length he had a flat denial and yet he stole over with Sir John Norris into the Action of Britain which was then a hot and active War whom he would always call his Father honouring him above all men and ever bewailing his end so contrary he was in his esteem and valuation of this great Commander to that of his Friend my Lord of Essex Till at last the Queen began to take his Decessions for Contempts and confined his residence to the Court and her own Presence And upon my Lord of Essex's fall so confident she was in her own Princely judgment and opinion she had conceived of his worth and conduct that she would have this Noble Gentleman and none other to finish and bring the Irish War to a propitious end For it was a prophetical Speech of her own That it would be his fortune and his honour to cut the thred of that fatal Rebellion and to bring her in peace to the Grave Where she was not deceived for he atchieved it but with much pains and carefulness and not without the fears and many jealousies of the Court and Times wherewith the Queen's age and the malignity of her setting times were replete And so I come to his dear Friend in Court Master Secretary Cecil whom in his long absence from Court he adored as his Saint and courted for his onely Maecenas both before and after his departure from Court and during all the time of his Command in Ireland well knowing that it lay in his power and by a word of his mouth to make or marr him Cecil SIR Robert Cecil since Earl of Salisbury was the Son of the Lord Burleigh and the Inheritor of his Wisdom and by degrees Successor of his Places and Favours though not of his Lands for he had Sir Thomas Cecil his Elder Brother since Created Earl of Exeter He was first Secretary of State then Master of the Wards and in the last of her Raign came to be Lord Treasurer all which were the steps of his Father's greatness and of the Honour he left to his House For his person he was not much beholding to Nature though somewhat for his Face which was the best part of his outside but for his inside it may be said and without soloecisme that he was his Father's own Son and a pregnant proficient in all Discipline of State He was a Courtier from his Cradle which might have made him betimes yet at the Age of Twenty and upwards he was much short of his after-proof but exposed and by change of Climate he soon made shew what he was and would be He lived in those times wherein the Queen had most need and use of Men of Weight and amongst able ones this was a Chief as having his sufficiency from his Instructions that Begat him the Tutorship of the Times and Court which were then the Academies of Art and Cunning for such was the Queen's condition from the Tenth or Twelfth of her Raign that she had the happiness to stand up whereof there is a former intimation though invironed with more Enemies and assaulted with more dangerous Practises than any Prince of her Times and of many Ages before Neither must we in this her Preservation attribute too much to Humane Policies for that God in his Omnipotent Providence had not onely ordained those Secondary Meanes as Instruments of the Work but by an Evident Manifestation that the same Work which she acted was a Well-pleasing Service of his own out of a peculiar care had decreed the Protection of the Work-Mistriss and thereunto added his abundant blessing upon all and whatsoever she undertook which is an observation of satisfaction to my self that she was in the right though to others now breathing under the same form and frame of her Government it may not seem an Animadversion of any worth but I leave them to the peril of their own folly And so again to this great Master of State and the Staff of the Queen's declining Age who though his little crooked Person could not promise any great supportation yet it carried thereon a Head and a Head-piece of a vast content and therein it seems Nature was so diligent to compleat one and the best part about him as that to the perfection of his Memory and Intellectuals she took care also of his Sences and to put him in Linceos Oculos or to pleasure him the more borrowed of Argus so to give unto him a prospective sight and for the rest of his sensitive vertues his Predecessor Walsingham had left him a Receit to smell out what was done in the Conclave and his good old Father was so well seen in the Mathermaticks as that he could tell you through all Spain every part every Ship with the Burthens whither bound with preparation what impediments for diversion of Enterprises Counsels and Resolutions And that we may see as in a little Map how docible this little man was I will present a taste of his Abilities My Lord of Devonshire upon the certainty the Spaniard would invade Ireland with a strong Army had written very earnestly to the Queen and the Council for such Supplies to be sent over that might enable him to march up to the Spaniard if he did Land and follow

honoured through many Descents by the Title of Viscounts Fitzwalters Moreover there was such an Antipathy in his nature to that of Leicester's that being together in Court and Both in high Imployments they grew to a direct Frowardness and were in continual Opposition the one setting the Watch the other the Sentinel Each on the Others Actions and Motions for my Lord of Sussex was of a great spirit which Backt with the queen's special favour and Supported by a Great and Ancient Inheritance could not brook the others Empire Insomuch as the Queen upon sundry occasions had somewhat to do to Appease them until death parted the competition and left the place to Leicester who was not long alone without his Rival in Grace and Command And to conclude this Favourite it is Confidently Affirmed that lying in his last sickness he gave this Caveat to his Friends I am now passing into another World and I must now leave you to your Fortunes and to the Queen's Grace and Goodness but beware of the Gipsie meaning Leicester for he will be too Hard for you all you know not the Beast so well as I do Lord Burleigh I Now come to the next which was Secretary William Cecil For on the death of the old Marquess of Winchester he came up in his room A Person of a most Subtile and Active spirit who though he stood not altogether by the way of Constellation and making up of a Party and Faction for he was wholly attentive to the service of his Mistriss and his Dexterity Experience and Merit Challenged a room in the Queen's favour which Eclipsed the others over-seeming Greatness and made it appear that there were others that Steered and Stood at the Helm besides Himself and more Stars in the Firmament of her Grace than Vrsa major or the Bear with the Ragged Staff He was born as they say in Lincolnshire but as some upon knowledge Averr of a younger Brother of the Cecils of Hartfordshire a Family of mine own knowledge though now private yet of no mean Antiquity Who being exposed and sent to the City as poor Gentlemen use to do their younger Sons he came to be a Rich man on London bridge and purchasing in Lincolnshire where this man was born he was sent to Cambridge then to the Inns of Court and so he came to serve the Duke of Somerset in the time of his Protectorship as Secretary and having a Pregnancy to Great Inclinations he came by degrees to a higher Conversation with the Chiefest Affairs of State and Councels but on the fall of the Duke he stood some years in umbrage and without Imployment till the State found and needed his Abilities and though we find not that he was taken into any place during Mary's Reign unless as some have said towards the last yet the Council on several occasions made use of him and at the Queen's entrance he was Admitted Secretary of State afterwards he was made Master of the Court of Wards then Lord Treasurer A person of most exquisite Abilities And indeed the Queen began then to need and to seek out for Men of both Garbs and so I conclude and rank this great Instrument of State amongst the Togati for he had not to do with the Sword more than as the great Pay-master and Contriver of War which shortly followed wherein he Accomplished much through his Theorical knowledge at home and Intelligence abroad by unlocking the Councels of the Queens Enemies We must now take and that of truth into observation That until the 10th of her Reign her Times were Calm and Serene though sometimes a little over-cast as the most Glorious Sun-risings are subject to shadowings and droppings For the Clouds of Spain and Vapours of the Holy League began then to Disperse and Threaten her Serenity Moreover she was then to provide against some Intestine Storms which began to gather in the very heart of her Kingdom all which had a Relation and Correspondency each with other to Dethrone her and to Disturb the publick Tranquility and therewithal as a principal work the Established Religion for the name of Recusant began then and first to be known to the World and till then the Catholicks were no more than Church-Papists but were commanded by the Pope's Express Letters to Appear and Forbear Church-going as they tender their Holy Father and the Holy Catholick Church their Mother so that it seems the Pope had then his Times to take a true Muster of his Children but the Queen had the greater Advantage for she likewise took Tale of her Apostate Subjects their Strength and how many they were that had given up their Names unto Baal He then by the Hands of some of his Proselytes fixed his Bulls on the Gates of Paul's which Discharged her Subjects of all fidelity and laid siege to the received Faith and so under the veil of the next Successor to Replant the Catholick Religion so that the Queen had then a new Task and Work in hand that might well awake her best Providence and required a Mester of Men and Arms as well as Courtships and Councels for the Times began to be Quick and Active and fitter for stronger Motions than those of the Carpet and it will be a true note of her Magnanimity that she loved a Souldier and had a Propension in her nature to Regard and always to Grace them which the Courtiers taking into observation took it as an invitation to win Honour together with her Majesties Favour by exposing themselves to the Wars especially when the Queens and the Affairs of the Kingdom stood in some Necessity of a Souldier For we have many instances of the Sallies of the Nobility and Gentry yea and out of the Court and her Privy Favourites that had any touch or tincture of Mars in their inclinations and to steal away without License and the Queen's privity which had like to have cost some of them dear so predominant were their Thoughts and Hopes of Honour growing in them as we may truly observe in the dispositions of Sir Philip Sidney my Lord of Essex Mountjoy and divers others whose Absence and the Manner of their Eruptions was very Distastful to her whereof I can here add a True and no Impertinent Story and that of the last Mountjoy who having twice or thrice stoln away into Britain where under Sir John Norris he had then a Company without the Queen's leave and privity she sent a Messenger unto him with a strict charge to the General to see him sent home when he came into the Queen's Presence she fell into a kind of Reviling Demanding how he durst go over without her leave Serve me so quoth she once more and I will lay you Fast enough for Running You will never leave it until you are knockt on the head as that inconsiderate Fellow Sidney was You shall Go when I send you in the mean Time see that you lodge in the Court which was then at White-Hall

new Farmers So that we may take this also into observation that there were of the Queen's Council that were not in the Catalogue of Saints Now as we have taken a view of some particular Notions of her Times her Nature and Necessities It is not beside the text to give a short Touch on the Helps and Advantages of her Reign which were without Parallel for she had neither Husband Brother Sister nor Children to Provide for who as they are Dependants of the Crown so doe they Necessarily draw maintenance from thence and do oftentimes Exhaust and Draw deep especially when there is an ample fraternity of the bloud Royal and of the Princes of the Bloud as it was in the time of Edward the third and Henry the fourth for when the Crown cannot the Publick ought to give them Honourable Allowance for they are the Honour and Hopes of the Kingdom and the Publick which enjoys them hath a like interest in them with the Father that begot them and our Common-Law which is the Inheritance of the Kingdom did ever of old provide aids for the Primogenitures and the eldest Daughter So that the multiplicy of Courts and the Great Charge which necessarily follow a King and Queen a Prince and the Royal Issue was a thing which was not in rerum natura during the space of forty years and which by time was worn out of memory and without the consideration of the present times Insomuch that the aids given to the late and right noble Prince Henry and to his Sister the Lady Elizabeth were at first generally received for impositions of a new Coynage Yea the late impositions for Knighthood though an ancient Law fell also into the imputation of a Tax of novelty for that it lay long covered in the embers of division between the Houses of York and Lancaster and forgotten or connived at by the succeeding Princes So that the strangeness of the observation and difference of those later reigns is that the Queen took up beyond the power of the Law which fell not into the murmur of the people and her successors nothing but by warrant of the Law which nevertheless was conceived through disuse to be Injurious to the Liberty of the Kingdom Now before I come to any further mention of her Favourites for hitherto I have delivered but some Obvious Passages thereby to prepare and smooth a way for the rest that follows it is requisite that I Touch on the Relicks of the other Reign I mean the Body of her Sisters Council of State which she Retained intire neither Removing nor Discontenting any although she knew them averse to her Religion and in her Sisters time Perverse towards her Person and privy to her Troubles and Imprisonment A prudence which was incomparible with her Sisters nature for she both dissipated and Persecuted the major part of her Brother's Council But this will be of certainty that how Compliable soever and Obsequious she found them yet for a good space she made little use of their Counsels more than in the Ordinary course of the Board for she held a Dormant Table in her own Princely Breast yet she kept them together and their Places without any sudden Change so that we may say of them That they were of the Court not of the Council For whilest she Amused them with a kind of Promissive Disputation concerning the Points Controverted by both Churches she did set down her own Reservations without their Privity and made all her Progressions Gradations But so that the Tenents of her secrecy with intent of her establishment were Pitcht before it was known where the Court would sit down Neither do I find that any of her Sisters Council of State were either Repugnant to her Religion or Opposed her doings Englefield Master of the Horse excepted who withdrew himself from the Board and shortly after from out her Dominions so Plyable and Obedient they were to Change with the Times and their Princes And of this there will fall in here a Relation both of Recreation and of known Truth Paulet Marquess of Winchester and Lord Treasurer having served then four Princes in as Various and Changeable seasons that I may well say time nor any age hath yielded the like precedent This Man being noted to grow High in her Favour as his Place and Experience required was questioned by an Intimate friend of his how he stood up for Thirty years together amidst the Changes and Reigns of so many Chancellors and Great Personages Why quoth the Marquess Ortus sum ex salice non ex quercu I was made of the plyable Willow not of the stubborn Oak And truly the Old Man hath Taught them all especially William Earl of Pembroke for they two were ever of the King's Religion and over-zealous professors Of these it is said that being both younger Brothers yet of Noble Houses they spent what was left them and came on trust to the Court where upon the bare stock of their Wits they began to Traffick for themselves and prospered so well that they Got Spent and Left more than any Subjects from the Norman Conquest to their own Times whereunto it hath been prettily replyed that they lived in a Time of Dissolution To conclude then of any of the former reign it is said that these two lived and dyed chiefly in her favour The latter upon his son's marriage with the Lady Katharine Grey was like utterly to have lost himself But at the Instant of the consummation Apprehending the insafety and danger of an inter-marriage with the Bloud-Royal he fell at the Queen's feet where he both Acknowledged his Presumption with tears and projected the Cause and the Divorce together and so quick he was at his work for it stood him upon that upon Repudiation of the Lady he clapt up a marriage for his Son the Lord Herbert with Mary Sidney daughter to Sir Henry Sidney then Lord Deputy of Ireland the blow falling on Edward late Earl of Hereford who to his cost took up the Divorced Lady of whom the Lord Beauchamp was born and William Earl of Hereford is descended I come now to present Those of her own Election which she either admitted to her secrets of State or took into her Grace and Favour of whom in their order I crave leave to give unto posterity a cautious description with a short Character or Draught of the persons themselves For without offence to others I would be true to my self their memories and merits distinguishing them of the Militia from the Togati and of these she had as many and those as able Ministers as any of her Progenitors Leicester IT will be out of doubt that my Lord of Leicester was one of the first whom she made Master of the Horse he was the youngest Son then living of the Duke of Northumberland beheaded primo Mariae and his Father was that Dudley which our Histories couple with Epson and both so much Infamed for the Caterpillars of

having married the Sister none of the other side took any deep rooting in the Court though otherwise they made their ways to Honour by their swords And that which is of more note considering my Lord of Leicester's use of Men of Arms being shortly after sent Governour to the Revolted States and no Souldier himself is that he made no more accompt of Sir John Norris a Soldier then deservedly famoused and trained from a Page under the discipline of the great Captain of Christendom the Admiral Castilion and of Command in the French and Dutch wars almost twenty years It is of further observation that my Lord of Essex after Leicester's decease though initiated to Arms and houred by the General in the Portugal expedition whether out of instigation as it hath been thought or out of ambition and jealousie to be eclipsed and over-shadowed by the fame and splendour of this great Commander loved him not in sincerity Moreover certain it is he not onely crusht and upon all occasions quell'd the growth of this brave man and his famous Brethren but therewith drew on his own fatal end by undertaking the Irish Action in a time when he left the Court empty of friends and f●ll fraught with his profess'd enemies But I forbear to extend my self in any further relation upon this subject as having left some notes of truth in these two Noble Families which I would present and therewith toucht somewhat which I would not if the equity of the Narration would have admitted an intermission Sir John Perrot SIr John Perrot was a goodly Gentleman and of the Sword And as he was of a very ancient descent as an heir to many abstracts of Gentry especially from Guy de Bryan of Lawhern so was he of a vast Estate and came not to the Court for want And to these adjuncts he had the endowments of courage and height of spirit had it lighted on the allay of temper and discretion the defect whereof with a native freedom and boldness of speech drew him on to a clouded setting and laid him open to the spleen and advantage of his enemies amongst whom Sir Christopher Hatton was profest He was yet a wise man and a brave Courtier but rough and participating more of active than sedentary motions as being in his constellation destinated for Arms. There is a quaere of some denotations how he came to receive his foyl and that in the Catastrophe for he was strengthened with honourable Alliances and the privy friendships of the Court My Lord of Leicester and Burleigh both his Contemporaries and Familiars but that there might be as the Adage hath it falsity in friendship and we may rest fatisfied that there is no disputing against fate They quote him for a person that loved to stand too much alone and on his own legs of too often recesses and discontinuance from the Queen's presence A fault which is incompatible with the ways of Court and favour He was sent Lord Deputy into Ireland as it was thought for a kind of haughtiness of spirit and repugnancy in Councels or as others have thought the fittest Person then to bridle the insolency of the Irish And probable it is that both these considering the sway that he would have at the Board and head in the Queen's favour concurred and did a little conspire his remove and his ruine But into Ireland he went where he did the Queen very great and many services if the surplussage of the measure did not abate the value of the merit as aftertimes found that to be no paradox For to save the Queen's purse which both her self and my Lord Treasurer Burleigh ever took for good services he imposed on the Irish the charge of bearing their own arms which both gave them the possession and taught them the use of weapons which proved in the end a most fatal work both in the profusion of blood and treasure But at his return and on some account sent home before touching the state of the Kingdom the assiduous testimonies of her grace were towards him till by his retreat to his Castle at Cary where he was then building and out of desire to be in command at home as he had been abroad together with the hatred and practice of Hatton then in high favour whom not long before he had too bitterly taunted for his Dancing He was accused of High Treason and for high Words and a forged Letter Condemned though the Queen on the News of his Condemnation Swore by her wonted Oath That they were all Knaves And they deliver with assurance That on his return to the Tower after his Trial he said in Oaths and in Fury to the Lieutenant Sir Owen Hopton What will the Queen suffer her Brother to be offered up as a Sacrifice to the Envy of my Frisking Adversaries Which being made known to the Queen and the Warrant for his Execution tendered and somewhat enforced she refused to Sign it and Swore he should not die for he was an honest a faithful Man And surely though not altogether to set up our rest and faith upon Tradition and upon old Reports as that Sir Thomas Perrot his Father was a Gentleman of the Privy-Chamber to Henry the Eighth and in the Court married a Lady of Great Honour of the King's Familiarity which are presumptions of some implication But if we go a little further and compare his Picture his Qualities Gesture and Voice with that of the King 's which memory retains yet amongst us they will plead strongly that he was a Subreptitious Child of the Blood Royal. Certain it is that he lived not long in the Tower and that after his decease Sir Thomas Perrot his Son then of no mean esteem with the Queen having before married my Lord of Essex's Sister since Countess of Northumberland had restitution of all his Lands though after his decease also which immediately followed the Crown resumed his Estate and took the advantage of the former Attainder And to say the truth the Priest's Forged Letter was at his Arraignment thought but a Fiction of Envy and was soon after exploded by the Priest's own confession But that which most exasperated the Queen and gave advantage to his Enemies was as Sir Walter Raleigh takes into his observation words of disdain For the Queen by sharp and reprehensive Letters had netled him and shortly after sending others of approbation commending his Service and intimating an Invasion from Spain which he no sooner perused but he said publickly in the Great Chamber at Dublin Lo now she is ready to Piss her self for fear of the Spaniard I am again one of her White-boys Words which are subject to a various construction and tended to some disreputation of his Soveraign and such as may serve for instruction to persons in place of honor and command to beware of the violences of nature but especially of the exorbitances of the tongue And so I conclude him with this double observation The one

on his prosecution against the Rebels Sir Robert Cecil besides the general dispatch of the Council as he often did Wrote this in private for these two began then to Love dearly My Lord Out of the abundance of my affection and the care I have of your well-doing I must in private put you out of doubt for of fear I know you cannot be otherwise sensible than in the way of Honour that the Spaniard will not come unto you this year for I have it from my own what preparations are in all his parts and what he can doe for be confident he beareth up a reputation by seeming to embrace more than he can gripe but the next year be assured he will cast over unto you some forlorn hopes which how they may be reinforced beyond his present ability and his first intention I cannot as yet make any certain judgement but I believe out of my intelligence that you may expect their Landing in Munster and the more to distract you in several places as at King's-Saile Beer-haven Baltimore where you may be sure coming from Sea they will first fortifie and learn the strength of the Rebels before they dare take the field howsoever as I know you will not lessen not your care neither your defences l … and whatsoever lies within my power to doe you and the publick service rest thereof assured And to this I would add much more but it may as it is suffice to present much as to his abilities in the Pen that he was his Crafts-master in foreign intelligence And for domestique affairs as he was one of those that sate at the Stern to the last of the Queen so he was none of the least in skill and in the true use of the Compass And so I shall only vindicate the scandal of his death and conclude him For he departed at St. Margaret's neer Marleborough in his return from the Bath as my Lord Viscount Cranborn my Lord Clifford his Son and Son-in-law my self and many more can witness But that the day before he swounded in the way was taken out of the Litter and laid into his Coach was a truth out of which that falshood concerning the manner of his death had its derivation tho' nothing to the purpose or to the prejudice of his worth Vere SIR Francis Vere was of the ancient and of the most Noble extract of the Earls of Oxford And it may be a question whether the Nobility of his House or the Honour of his Atchievements might most commend him but that we have an authentick Rule to decide the doubt Nam genus proavos quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco For though he were an Honourable Slip of that ancient Tree of Nobility which was no disadvantage to his vertue yet he brought more glory to the Name of Vere than he took of Bloud from the Family He was amongst the Queens Sword-men inferiour to none but superior to many Of whom it may be said To speak much of him were the way to leave out something that might add to his praise and to forget more that could add to his Honour I find not that he came much to the Court for he lived almost perpetually in the Camp but when he did no Man had more of the Queen's Favour and none less envyed for he seldom troubled it with the jealousie and alarms of supplantations his way was another sort of undermining They report that the Queen as she loved Martial Men would Court this Gentleman as soon as he appeared in her Presence And surely he was a Souldier of great worth and Commanded Thirty years in the Service of the States and Twenty years over the English in Chief as the Queen's General and he that had seen the Battel of Newport might there best have taken him and his Noble Brother my Lord of Tilbury to the Life Worcester MY Lord of Worcester I have here put last but not least in the Queen's Favour He was of the ancient and Noble Blood of the Bewfords and of her Grandfather's Line by the Mother which the Queen could never forget especially where there was a concurrency of old blood with fidelity a mixture which ever sorted with the Queen's Nature And though there might appear something in this House which might avert her Grace though not to speak of my Lord himself but with due reverence and Honour I mean contrariety or suspicion in Religion yet the Queen ever respected this House and principally this Noble Lord whom she first made Master of the Horse and then admitted of her Council of State In his youth part whereof he spent before he came to reside at Court he was a very fine Gentleman and the best Horseman and Tilter of the Times which were then the Manlike and Noble Recreations of the Court and such as took up the Applause of Men as well as the Praise and Commendadation of Ladies And when years had abated these Exercises of Honour he grew then to be a faithful and profound Counsellor And as I have placed him last so was he the last Liver of all the Servants of her Favour and had the honour to see his Renowned Mistriss and all of them laid in the places of their Rest And for himself after a Life of a very Noble and Remarkable Reputation he died Rich and in a Peaceable Old Age. A fate that I make the last and none of the slightest Observations which befel not many of the rest for they expired like unto Lights blown out with the Snuff stinking not commendably extinguished and with Offence to the standers by And thus have I delivered up this my poor Essay A little Draught of this great Princess and her Times with the Servants of her State and Favour I cannot say I have finished it for I know how defective and imperfect it is as limbed onely in the original nature not without the active blemishes and so left it as a task fitter for remote times and the sallies of some bolder Pencil to correct that which is amiss and draw the rest up to life As for me to have endeavoured it I took it to consideration how easily I might have dasht in too much of the strain of pollution and thereby have defaced that little which is done For I profess I have taken care so to master my Pen that I might not ex animo or of set-purpose discolour truth or any of the parts thereof otherwise than in concealment Happily there are some which will not approve of this modesty but will censure me for pusillanimity and with great cunning Artists attempt to draw their Line further out at large and upon this of mine which may with somewhat more ease be effected for that the frame is ready made to their hands and then happily I could draw one in the midst of theirs But that modesty in me forbids the defacements of Men departed whose Posterity yet remaining enjoys the merit of their