After that, he converted his studies,
and endeavours, to make the King
an absolute Arbitrary Monarch,
by screwing up the Regall Preroga∣tive
to so high a strain as hath made
it crack; and by raising his Reve∣nues
so high that he made them fal;
in which also his owne interest was
concerned: For, he did neither serve
God nor the King for nought. Nor
would Straffords abilities have been
so transparent, had any such Con∣currents
as Buckhurst, Walsingham, or
Hatton been now living, or such an
one as the Earle of Essex (who was
Salisburies Antagonist.) But this
man had onely the Arch-Bishop
(whose proper Element too, was but
the Church) and they drew both in
one line. And here I shal give you one
note of Straffords failing in his Ma∣ster-piece,
that he was no such ab∣solute
wise man (that could not find
the just Medium of the peoples Tem∣per)
but by striving to make the
King all; and on a sudden, he made
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