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VI. To Sir Eubule Theloall, Knight, and Principall of Jesus Coll. in Oxford.
SIR, I send you most due and humble thanks, that notwithstan∣ding I have played the Truant, and been absent so long from Oxford, you have been pleas'd lately to make choice of me to be Fellow of your new Foundation in Iesus College, wherof I was once a Member: As the quality of my Fortunes, and cours of life run now, I cannot make present use of this your great favour, or promotion rather, yet I do highly value it, and humbly accept of it, and intend, by your permission, to reserve and lay it by, as a good warm garment against rough weather if any fall on me. With this my expression of thankfulnes, I do congratulate the great honour you have purchas'd both by your own beneficence, and by your painfull endeavor besides, to perfect that Nationall College, which hereafter is like to be a Monument of your Fame, as well as a Se∣minarie of Learning, and will perpetuat your memory to all Po∣sterity.
God Almighty prosper and perfect your undertakings, and pro∣vide for you in Heaven those rewards which such publick works of Piety use to be crown'd withall; it is the apprecation of
Your truly devoted Servitor, J. H.
London, idibus Mar. 1621.