Lyly avait d’abord écrit « envy

T haue presumed to writ thus much to yo’ Ho : for y‘ I wold not lett goe y* hold in your opinion, y‘ I haue euer endevored, to kepe fast.

But I find occasion bald both before and behind, for whersoeuer Î snatch, I meet wi a bare scalpe. My praiers for happy success, and encreas of yo’ Ho : house, shall not ceas, what wanteth in witt shall be supplied in devotion. And so humbly crauing pardon, I end. Ja : 17. 1594.

Yo’ Ho : in all duety.

Th. Lyzy.

Au dos :

For y° right honorable Sir Robert Cecil knight one of her Matesties most Ho : privy Counsell.

17 Jan. 1594. Mr Lillie to my M.

(Manuscripts preserved at Hatñeld House, vol. xxiv,

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