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MAdam, my labour is happie, since it is ne∣ver from before you, and since I am told, you make it your ordinary entertainment. The end of all fayre Pictures, and good Bookes, is but onely to please your eyes, and to delight your spirit, and the good you have not yet set
a price upon, is not yet come to its uttermost perfection. I have therefore all that an ambi∣tious man could wish for, I may perhaps have fortune from others, but glory I can have from none but you; and another perhaps may pay me, but none but you can recompense mee. The paines I have hytherto taken, have beene but ill required. I have tilled a ground that brings mee forth but thornes; yet Madam, since they grow for your service, I am conten∣ted to be pricked by them; and I love the cause of my disgraces, if they proove a cause of your recreations. The first Newes, you shall heare, will tell you what I meane; and that my pati∣ence never makes my persecutours weary. You shall see Madam, that there is no consci∣ence made to contradict you, and that, that which you call excellent and admirable, hath yet at Paris found enemies, and at Bruxells hangmen. I will say no more at this time, but that I am
Madam.
Your, &c.
At Balzac, 6. Jan. 1631.