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[fol. 214r] Master Herle so farr as I can he re [ ... ] of the french woman you wrote [ ... ] in your last lres ys lyke to bring [ ... ] monster. for by the judgement of all [ex ... ] [ ... ] sage persons * [ Marginalia (by Gilpin): great embassadges now [ ... ] [from] spayne & come to the K att Parris./] Aliquid inagi nutriunt ^g [ ... ] ^ standing, not one (of ether syde) can be [ ... ] fiet de [nustijs] [ deleted: in [fere] ] for the dowble [ .. ] continud styll emongst the middest of [ ... ] great bancquetts, and feasts / And I [ ... ] some of your best frends are able to lea [ ... ] frenshe man to [ ... ] an Englishe m [an ... ] but on what sorte, I am not able [ ... ] and therfore pardon me, if I do not w [rite... ] largely to you, as a man of better [ ... ] in thes causes might do: the rather [ ... ] that I thinck on my concience, the [one] that sytts next the egg, knowes not [what] wilbe hatched./

D'vraye ys occupied in counsell, consult [ations] and capitulations that yt is not poss [ible] for so meane a man as I am, to have [any] conferaunce with him. Cossy, La [ ... ] pynard, La motte, marchemount [ ... ] ar in continualle conferauncs. I [ ... ] god all may be to the glory of [ ... ] to hir Majestie. compforts quietnes [ ... ] Alioquiu etc.

if you wold [ ... ] xxs for one of [ ... ] of Orangs abjurations yt canot [ ... ] heare.

This day was master Lea at the C [ourt] I left your lres at his chamber [ ... ] blake [orders] your messenger goes so [ ... ] agayn that you can have no Answe [r by] him. And so forte fashions. A de [ ... ] Sonday before penthecost 1582 Le ve [ ... ] A Jamais