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168 and you that hath an extraordinary judgment by Hisgifts that doth all must with that wisdom seek now to master your good and kind nature and to think that sorrow nor anything else can now redeem it. And as she is now most assured happier than all we that live in this 'pudeled' and troubled world, so do I assure you, as long as God shall spare me life in it, there shall not be any tread on the earth that shall love you better than my poor self; and I vow it to God I think none doth or can do so much as I do."

But it was long before the Secretary could rouse himself from his grief, and in June his aunt, Lady Russell, found it necessary to give him a characteristic exhortation:—

Although Cecil had been transacting the