MR. GODOLPHIN TO THE PRINCE OF ORANGE.[1]
Mr. Sidney has told me that your Highness does me still the honour to preserve me in your good opinion, and that you are so just as to believe me as full of zeal for your service, and as much devoted to your interests as truly and sincerely from my heart I am, and I hope always shall continue to be, but I am not very good at compliments and great expressions, and, if I am not deceived, your Highness cares as little to be troubled with them. Mr. Sidney has told me further that your Highness has spoken to him of a thought you have lately had, that it might be of good use to you to come over into England at this time, and that you had given him leave to acquaint me with it, and to know my opinion of it. I confess I was very well pleased to hear him say it was your Highnesses own thought, and that you seemed to have an inclination for it; for my part I have wished for it a great while, and I think it more necessary now than ever, for I am satisfied there is nothing that can so infallibly restore that good
- ↑ Published by Dalrymple, Mem. i. 70.
