a letter of offer of his service to his majesty upon his first come in may it  please your most excellent majesty it be observe upon a place in the canticle  by some ego sum Flos Campi Lillium Convalium it be not say ego sum Flos Horace  Lillium Montinum because the majesty of that person be not enclose for a few  nor appropriate to the great and yet notwithstanding this royal virtue of  access which nature and judgement have plant in your majesty mind as ortall of  all the rest can not of it self my imperfection consider have animate I to  have make oblation of my self immediate to your majesty have it not be join  with a habit of like liberty which I enjoy with my late dear sovereign  mistress a prince happy in all thing but most happy in such a successor and  yet further and more near I be not a little encourage not only upon a supposal  that unto your majesty care open to the air of all virtue there may have come  some small breath of the good memory of my father so long a principal  counselor in your kingdom but also by the particular knowledge of the infinite  devotion and incessant endeavour beyond the strength of his body and the  nature of the time which appear in my good brother towards your majesty  service and near on your majesty part through your singular benignity by many  most gracious and lively signification and favour accept and acknowledge  beyond the merit of any thing he can effect all which endeavour and duty for  the most part be common to my self with he though by design between brother  dissemble and therefore most high and mighty king my most deer and dread  sovereign lord since now the corner stone be lie of the mighty Monarch in  Europe and that God above who be note to have a mighty hand in bridle the  flood and fluctuation of the sea and of people heart have by the miraculous  and universal consent the more strange because it proceed from such diversity  of cause in your come in give a sign and token what he intend in the  continuance I think there be no subject of your majesty who leave this Isla  and be not hollow and unworthy who heart be not set on fire n only to bring  you peace offer to make you propitious but to sacrifice himself a burn offer  to your majesty service almost which number no man fire shall be more pure and  fervent but how far forth it shall blaze out that rest in your majesty  employment for since your fortune in the greatness thereof have for a time  debar your majesty of the fruitly virtue which one call the principal  Princeps  be voritus maxima c because your majesty have many of you which be  unknown unto you I must leave all to the trial of further time and thirst  after the happiness of kiss your royal hand continue ever c