XXXIV. To Dr. Tho: Prichard.
Dear Dr.
I Have now had too long a supersede as from employment, having engag'd my self to a fatall man at Court (by his own seeking) who I hoped, and had reason to expect (for I wav'd all other wayes) that he would have bin a Scale towards my rising, but he hath rather prov'd an instrument to my ruine: it may be he will prosper accordingly.
I am shortly bound for Ireland, and it may be the Stars will cast a more benign Aspect upon me in the West; you know who got the Persian Empire by looking that way for the first beams of the Sun-rising, rather than towards the East.
My Lord Deputy hath made often professions to do me a plea∣sure, and I intend now to put him upon't,
I purpose to pass by the Bath, for a pain I have in my Arm, pro∣ceeding from a Defluxion of Rheum, and then I will take Breck∣nock in my way, to comfort my Sister Penry, who I think hath lost one of the best husbands in all the thirteen shires of Wales.
So with apprecation of all happines to you, I rest
London, 10 Feb. 1637.
Yours while J. H.