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 in justice and gratitude I was bound) serve him faithfully and industriously; I was his Secretary without one penny of reward, I neglected my own private affairs to promote his, and consequently I preferred his interest before any Mans, and I serv'd his friends cæteris paribus, before his enemies.

Moreover because he should not be jealous of me, I became as a stranger to other Grandees, though without the least distaste intended to them; when he was shaken I was content to fall, I did not lessen him to his Enemies to magnifie my self. I never accused him to excuse my self. Moreover, though I never promised to live and die with him, which is the common Phrase; Yet I did stay to see his then interest which I had espoused, dead and buried, Esteeming that then, and when a convenient time of mourning was over, That if I should marry another Interest, and be as fixt unto it as I had been to his, I should do no more then I alwayes in his prosperity told him I would do, if I saw occasion. Which kind of Devotion to him, making some others think I slighted them, made them to hate me.