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48 Favour to me, that although I had no meaning, but to settle in my Mind my chiefest Dependance upon the Lord Burleigh, as one that I reputed to be both the best able, and therewithal the most willing to work my Advancement with the Queen; Yet I know not how the Earl, who sought by all Devices to divert her Love and Liking both from the Father and the Son, (but from the Son in special) to withdraw my Affection from the One, and the Other, and to win me altogether to depend upon himself, did so often take occasion to entertain the Queen. with some prodigal Speeches of my Sufficiency for a Secretary, which were ever accompanied