Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed / by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wottan ...
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Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed / by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wottan ...
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Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.
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London :: Printed by T. Roycroft for R. Marriott, F. Tyton, T. Collins and J. Ford,
1672.
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To the Queen of Bohemia.
May it please your Majesty.
THis Bearer is that Lad, by name Frank Bacon, for whom your Majesties intercession with the Prince of Orenge, hath bound so many unto you here. It is your goodness that hath done it, and therefore he is addressed by his Friends (and by me who am the meanest of them) first thorow your Gracious hands, and laid down at your Royal feet.
There is in him (I believe) mettal enough to be cast into good form: and I hope it is of the noblest sort, which is ever the most malleable and pliant. Only one thing I fear, that coming from a Country
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life, into the lustre of Courts, he will be more troubled with it, then with the hissing of Bullets.
Now when I consider (as I do at the present) that besides your Majesties ancienter favours towards me, and to them that have been, and are so dear unto me; some gone, and some remaining: you have lately received the Child of my very worthy Friend, Mr. Griffith, about the Prince your Son, and honoured this other with your especial recom∣mendation, in such a forcible and express manner as you were pleased to do it: I say; when I consi∣der all this, I cannot but fall into some passionate questions with mine own heart. Shall I die with∣out seeing again my Royal Mistress my self? Shall I not rather bring her my most humble thanks, then let them thus drop out of a dull Pen? Shall such a contemptible distance, as between Eton and the Hague, divide me from beholding how her virtues overshine the darkness of her fortune? I could spend much paper in this passion, but let it sleep for the present: And God bless your Majesty.
August 16. 1629.
As I am Yours, H. WOTTON.
After this humble and just acknowledgement of my obligations unto your Majesty, it were a mi∣serable thing for me to tell you, that at our late Election, I have remembred your Commandment in the first place, I should indeed rather ask what your Majesty will have next done.
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