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them, and therefore I will get mee to the court. And I will you knowe, deare Mother, that manuell craft is one exerciſe, and to knowe to behave themſelues in Court is an other Arte. Thy wordes in parte are good, to cauſe them refrayne from doing things they can not bring to paſſe. But to me that muſt remaine in Princes Court, I maye not go ſo plainlye and ſimply to worke, but muſt vſe euery one with Arte, feeding ſtill their humor; to deale in others matters with deceyt, and in mine owne to have a ſubtill witte, deuiſing ſtill all I may to be chiefe about the Prince. And that that now I haue tolde you, I haue long ſince determined to doe. In Princes Courts he that proceedeth not ſtowtely in his matters, beſides that he is thought a Coward, they take him for a foole. What? Know not you that fortune fauoureth ſtill the prowde and ſtowte? think ye my ſtowteneſſe will not fauour me, accompanied with the malice of vnderſtandinge, and with the pride of reputing my ſelfe of noble bloud, which preheminences obtaine happie tate in Court? And he that hath the name to bee wife, ſubtile, ſharpe of wit, and with that to be of noble houfe: hath made him already a Cloke for ſinne, and a garment for his naughtineſſe. That that I haue ſayde I ſpeake with iudgement, and for proofe thereof I can alledge