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PResaging, as it were to my selfe, that in such alike office, I should one d••y haue need of your f••uour; when your goue••nment and proceed∣ings in the Prouince, were d••b••••ed in ••he Senate, I maintain••d your honour, with my whole power. Ye•• I must needs say, and that truely, that you haue ren∣dred
me more, then euer you receiu'd, How many haue written to me, tha•• not onely with the authoritie o•• you•• words, and opinion; for which things of themselues, from so great a man, I ought to haue beene contented; but ••urther, with your endeuour, and coun••sell, and with your repairing home to my house, and solliciting al my friends, you omitted no office of kindnesse to a∣ny particular [in my behalfe]? I esteeme more of these things, then o•• those, for which these endeuours are vnderta∣ken. For the ornaments of vertue, haue beene obtained by many, without ver∣tue; but such high fauo••rs, from men o•• that rari••i••, none cert••inely but a ver∣tuous man, could at any time obtaine. So that I propound vnto my selfe no o∣ther reward of our amitie, but meere friendship; which in her selfe compre∣hends aboundant felicitie; especially in those studies, wherein we mu••ually take l••king. Because I offer my selfe vnto yo•• as an associate in the cause of the Common-weal••h, of which, our o••ini∣ons are not different: and I will daily conuerse with you, in the exercise of those vertues, that both the one, and o∣ther of vs loueth. I would to God for∣tune had so dispos••d, that your kindnes might haue bin as great to my friends, as mine to yours: and yet I despair•• not ther••of, for a secret for•• knowledge
that my mind giues me: but you need not care for this: the burden is to lie on my shoulders. And I entreat you to beleeue, that by this new affinitie, my affection towards you is not onely not diminished, but it is encreased: though before, it seem'd to be perfect. When I wrote this present letter, I hop't you were Censor, and for this cause, I con∣triu'd the letter, briefe, and mo∣dest, as letters ought to be, that are directed to a ma∣ster of behauiour. Farewell.