GOod Good Master G. I perceiue perceive by your most curteous and frendly Letters your good will to be no lesse in deed, than I alwayes esteemed. In recõ-pence recom-pence wherof, think, think I beseech you, that I wil spare neither speech, nor wryting, nor aught else, whensoe-uer, whensoe-ver, and wheresoeuer wheresoever occasion shal be offred me: yea, I will not stay, till it be offred, but will seeke it, in al that possibly I may. And that you may perceiue perceive how much your Counsel in al things preuaileth prevaileth with me, and how alto-gither I am ruled and ouer over -ruled thereby: I am now deter-mined to alter mine owne former purpose, and to subscribe to your aduizemẽt advizemẽt aduizement advizement : being notwithstãding notwithstanding resolued resolved stil, to abide your farther resolution. My principal doubts are these. First, I was minded for a while to haue have intermitted the vttering uttering of my writings: leaste by ouer over -much cloying their noble ea-res, I should gather a contempt of my self, or else seeme ra-ther for gaine and commoditie to doe it, for some sweetnesse that I haue have already tasted. Then also me seemeth the work too base for his excellent Lordship, being made in Honour of a priuate private Personage vnknowne unknowne , which of some yl-willers might be vpbraided upbraided , not to be so worthie, as you knowe she is: or the matter not so weightie, that it should be offred to so weightie a Personage: or the like. The selfe former Title 54 Slomber stil liketh me well ynough, and your fine Addition no lesse. If these, and the like doubtes, maye be of importaunce in your seeming, to frustrate any parte of your aduice advice , I bee-seeche you, without the leaste selfe loue love of your own purpose, councell me for the beste: and the rather doe it faithfullye, and carefully, for that, in all things I attribute so muche to your iudgement judgement , that I am euermore evermore content to adnihilate mine owne determinations, in respecte thereof. And indeede for your selfe 4.28. to: too to too , it sitteth fitteth ſitteth sitteth with you now, to call your wits, & and senses togither, togither (which are alwaies at call) call), when occasion is so fairely offered of Estimation and Preferment. For, whiles the yron is hote, it is good striking, and minds of Nobles va-rie, as their Estates. Verùm ne quid durius.

I pray you bethinke you well hereof, good Maister G. and forthwith write me those two or three special points and ca-ueats ca-veats for the nonce, De quibus in superioribus illis mellitissimis, longissimisque longissimisque Litteris tuis. Your desire to heare of my late bee-ing with hir Maiestie Majestie , muste dye in it selfe. As for the twoo worthy Gentlemen, Master Sidney, and Master Dyer, they haue have me, I thanke them, in some vse use of familiarity: of whom, and to whome, what speache passeth for youre credite and e-stimation, I leaue leave your selfe to conceiue conceive , hauing having alwayes so well conceiued conceived of my vnfained unfained affection, and zeale towardes you. And nowe they haue have proclaimed in their ἀρειωπαγῳ, ἀρειωπαγῷ, a generall surceasing and silence of balde Rymers, and also of the verie beste, be[ſt]e 4.44. to: too to too : in steade whereof, they haue have by authoritie autho-tie of their whole Senate, prescribed certaine Lawes and rules of Quantities of English sillables, for English UerseVerse: hauing having had thereof already greate practise, and drawen mee to their faction. Newe Bookes I heare of none, but only of one, that writing a certaine Booke, called The Schoole of Abuse, and dedicating it to Maister Sidney, was for hys labor scorned: if at leaste it be in the goodnesse of that nature to scorne. Suche follie is it, not to regarde aforehande the inclination and qualitie of him, to whome wee dedicate oure Bookes. Suche mighte I happily incurre, entituling My 55 Iambicum Slomber, and the other Pamphlets, vnto unto his honor. I meant them rather to Maister Dyer. But I am, of late, more in loue love wyth my Englishe Uersifying Versifying , than with Ryming: whyche I should haue have done long since, if I would thẽ then haue have followed your councell. Sed te solum iam tum suspicabar cum Aschamo sapere: nunc Aulam video egregios alere Poëtas Anglicos. Mai-ster E. K. hartily desireth to be commended vnto unto your Wor-shippe: of whome, what accompte he maketh, youre selfe shall hereafter perceiue perceive , by hys paynefull and dutifull Uer-ses Ver-ses of your selfe.

Thus muche was written at Westminster yesternight: but comming this morning, beeyng the sixteenth of October, to Mystresse Kerkes, to haue have it deliuered delivered to the Carrier, I receyued receyved youre letter, sente me the laste weeke: whereby I perceiue perceive you otherwhiles continue your old exercise of Uer-sifying Ver-sifying in English: whych glorie I had now thought shoulde haue have bene onely ours heere at London, and the Court.

Truste me, your Uerses Verses I like passingly well, and enuye envye your hidden paines in this kinde, or rather maligne, and grudge at your selfe, that woulde not once imparte so muche to me. But once, or twice, you make a breache in Maister Drants Rules: quod tamen condonabimus tanto Poëtæ tuæque tuæque ipsius maximæ in his rebus autoritati. You shall see when we meete in London, London (whiche, when it shall be, certifye vs) vs), us) us), howe fast I haue have followed after you, in that Course: beware, leaste in time I ouertake overtake you. Veruntamen te solùm sequar, sequar ( vt ut sæpenu-merò sum professus,) professus), nunquam sanè assequar, dum viuam vivam . And nowe requite I you with the like, not with the verye beste, but with the verye shortest, namely with a fewe Iambickes: I dare warrant, they be precisely perfect for the feete (as you can easily iudge judge ) and varie not one inch from the Rule. I will imparte yours to Maister Sidney, and Maister Dyer, at my nexte going to the Courte. I praye you, keepe mine close to your selfe, or your verie entire friendes, Maister Preston, Maister Still, and the reste.