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 1/0 campion's historie you and I had exchanged Kingdomes but for one moneth, I would trust to gather up more crummes in that space, then twice the revenues of my poore Earledome ; but you are well and warme, and so hold you, and upbraide not me with such an odious storme. I sleepe on a cabbin, when you lye soft in your bed of downe, I serve under the cope of heaven, when you are served under a Canopy, I driuke water out of a skull, when you drinke out of golden Cuppes; my courser is trained to the field, when your Iennet is taught to amble, when you are begraced and belorded, and crowched and kneeled unto, then I finde small grace with our Irish borderers, except I cut them off by the knees. At these p'irds the Councell would have smiled if they durst, but each man bitt his lippe, and held his countenance, for howsoever some of them inclined to the Butler, they all hated the Cardinall : A man undoubtedly borne to honour, I thinke some Princes Bastard, no Butchers sonne, exceeding wise, faire spoken, high minded, full of revenge, vicious of his body, lofty to his enemies, were they never so bigge, to those that accepted and sought his friend- ship wonderfull courteous, a ripe Schooleman, thrall to affections, brought a bed with flattery, insatiable to get, & more princelike in bestowing : as appeareth by his two Colledges at Ipswich, and at Oxenford, th* one suppressed with his fall, th' other unfinished and yet as it lieth an house of Students (considering all