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SIR,
I Was glad for all the private in a late Letter from you, and sorry for the publick, both forraign, and inward: But I like Plato's counsel vvell; In adversities to compress murmur: For our Provi∣dence (saith he) is too short to judge, vvhether there may not lye under the outside of an apparent evil some in-imaginable good. The last Philoso∣phy is, Voluntas tua fiat Domine. Upon hearing, some good vvhile since, of the misadventures in the Palatine House; his loss of Meppen, before he had it; the defeat of his Troops, as soon as he had ga∣thered them; the taking of his Brother, &c. I fell upon a conceit, that perchance these unplea∣sant things might call over Sir R. Cave; the Prince being destitute of counsel, and of proper Instruments of Action, (for they say, Ferentz is likewise prisoner) And so there vvould be room here for your Imployment: vvhich I vvould vvish you to press extreamly. But of this more in my next. I now send you an Hogshead of more then Soror Tonantis; and very vvillingly, though so long after March you take us Sul basso. But one thing I must tell you, that for your Wives Splene∣tique Infirmity, there is nothing worse in the world then either strong or stale Beer. Now, that we have you out of the Streights and in the Ocean (as you call it) both of novelties as well as of other things, Matthew Saye shall have order to call upon you at least once a week. And for the present I leave you in his Love that never faileth: remaining,
Your very truly affectionate, HENRY WOTTON.
From the Colledge this Thursday morning, 1638.