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Rh so far as could become you as a Councillor and far beyond all due to me, as an offender. These I have fixed to my heart inseparably. From these, neither time nor persuasion or aught else wont to change affections or to waste them, shall beat from me, or make old in me; who will acknowledge your lordship with a love without mask or cover, and follow you to the end."

And several years later, after an angry interview with Salisbury, the occasion of which is not known, Raleigh wrote to Sir Walter Cope:—

Such expressions afford strong testimony to the generous qualities of Salisbury, nor, as has been pointed out, is their witness invalidated by the suggestion that they were used for selfish reasons,