If her Majesty think her own Occasions, and not us her poor Ministers, to be the Cause of this huge Expence, I shall willingly indure the Purgatory I live in, and sacrifice my Time, my Life and my Living, to do her the best Service I can; but if you find that she conceiveth the worse of me, because I am the Cook to dress her Diet here so chargeably, I beseech you, Sir, ( if I may ever deserve your Love ) use your uttermost Power to rid me speedily of my Office, and I dare presume that I have made no evil Way for my Successor to tread after me.
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What Learning, either human or divine, can be necessary to a minister may as easily and less chargeably be had in any private house.
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I must confess my weakness in this behalf; no man attends court fortunes with more impatience than I do. I esteem nothing more inexcusable, than to attend them chargeably, nor any expense so chargeable, as that of time.
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And by the way, I cannot but regrate, the great losse Sir Thomas Glover received by the Duke of Moldavia, who chargeably entertained him two yeares in his house, and furnished him with great moneys, and other necessaries fit for his eminency:
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