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Rh them, and therefore I will get mee to the court. And I will you knowe, deare Mother, that manuell craft is one exercie, and to knowe to behave themelues in Court is an other Arte. Thy wordes in parte are good, to caue them refrayne from doing things they can not bring to pae. But to me that mut remaine in Princes Court, I maye not go o plainlye and imply to worke, but mut ve euery one with Arte, feeding till their humor; to deale in others matters with deceyt, and in mine owne to have a ubtill witte, deuiing till all I may to be chiefe about the Prince. And that that now I haue tolde you, I haue long ince determined to doe. In Princes Courts he that proceedeth not towtely in his matters, beides that he is thought a Coward, they take him for a foole. What? Know not you that fortune fauoureth till the prowde and towte? think ye my towtenee will not fauour me, accompanied with the malice of vndertandinge, and with the pride of reputing my elfe of noble bloud, which preheminences obtaine happie tate in Court? And he that hath the name to bee wife, ubtile, harpe of wit, and with that to be of noble houfe: hath made him already a Cloke for inne, and a garment for his naughtinee. That that I haue ayde I peake with iudgement, and for proofe thereof I can alledge