e most factious against you;
repulses and scorns of your friends and dependents that are true and
steadfast; winning and inveigling away from you such as are flexible and
wavering; thrusting you into odious employments and offices to supplant
your reputation; abusing you and feeding you with dalliances and
demonstrations to divert you from descending into the serious
consideration of your own case; yea and percase venturing you in
perilous and desperate enterprises?"

With his usual exactness of method, he then proceeds to offer remedies
for the five grounds of offence to her majesty here pointed out; amongst
which the following are the most observable. That he ought to ascribe
any former and irrevocable instance of an ungovernable humor in him to
dissatisfaction, and not to his natural temper:--That though he sought
to shun, and in some respects rightly, any imitation of Hatton or
Leicester, he should yet allege them on occasion to the queen as authors
and patterns, because there was no readier means to make her think him
in the right course:--That when his lordship happened in speeches _to do
her majesty right_, "for there is no such matter as flattery amongst you
all," he had rather the air of paying fine compliments than of speaking
what he really thought; "so that," adds he, "a man may read your
formality in your countenance," whereas "it ought to be done familiarly
and with an air of earnest."

That he should never be without some particulars on foot which he
should seem to pursue with earnestness and affection, and then let them
fall upon taking knowledge of her majesty's opposition and dislike. Of
which kind the weightiest might be, if he offered to labor, in the
behalf of some whom he favored, for some of the places then void,
choosing such a subject as he thought her majesty likely to oppose.... A
less weighty sort of particulars might be the pretence of some journeys,
which at her majesty's request his lordship might relinquish; as if he
should pretend a journey to see his estate towards Wales, or the
like.... And the lightest sort of particulars, which yet were not to be
neglected, were in his habits, apparel, wearings, gestures, and the
like."

With respect to a "military dependence," which the writer regards as the
most injurious impression respecting him of all, he declares that he
could not enough wonder that his lordship should say the wars were his
occupation, and go on in that course. He greatly re