To Mounsieur Gaillard. LETTER XXXVII.

I Am unfortunate, but I am not faulty, I was assured you had written to me, but I received not your Letters. You have been my defen∣dour; and I have been a long time without knowing to whom I was bound for defending me: whether it were a man or an Angel that was come to my succour. These are honest subtelties, and generous supe∣rerogations. This is to deceive in charity, and to his advantage that is deceived. This is to bring again that good time, wherein Knights un∣known came to Freemen, that were oppressed, without telling their names; or so much as lifting up the Beavers of their Helmets. You have done in a manner the like; you have hidden your self under a borrowed shape; thereby to take away from a good action, all appa∣rence of vain glory; and to let them that are interessed, see, that you are virtuous without looking for reward. For my self, I do not think I am bound to follow the intention of this scrupulous virtue. If you have a will to shun noise, and the voice of the people; yet you cannot refuse the acknowledgement of an honest man: nor let me from paying what I owe you. Because you are modest, I must not therefore be ungratefull, as I am not by my good will, I assure you. You possess my heart, as absolutely, as you have justly purchased it; I am yours by all the sorts of right, not forgetting that of the wars. I will even believe that my enemy hath gotten a full victory, to the end I may more justly call you my Redeemer; and that you may have the Crown that was due to him had saved a Citizen. Mounsieur Borstill, whose wisdom and in∣tegrity you know, will answer for the truth of my words: and for my self, I shall need no surety; when I shall be able to testifie unto you by my actions; that there is not in the World a man more than my self