1612, 13.
SIR,
I Must now acknowledge it true which our Navi∣gators tell us, that there be indeed certain va∣riations of the Compass: for I think there was never point of a needle better touched then you have touched me, having ever since I parted from you, been looking towards you, and yet still by something or another, I am put out of my course. I will therefore hereafter not promise you any more to come unto you, but I will promise my self it; because indeed I have no other means to be at peace with my self: for I must lay this heavy note upon your conversation, that I am the un∣quieter for it a good while after.
This is the first part of what I meant to say. Af∣ter which I would fain tell you, That I send this Foot man expresly unto you to redeem some part of my fault, for not answering your late kind Letter by the Messenger that brought it: But the