In this o’recome your modestie.

Roch. My thankes For this great fauour shall preuent your trouble. The honourable trust that was impos’d Vpon my weaknesse since you witnesse for me, It was not ill discharg’d, I will not mention, [20] Nor now, if age had not depriu’d me of The little strength I had to gouerne well, The Prouince that I vndertooke, forsake it. 

My thankes

For this great fauour shall preuent your trouble.

The honourable trust that was impos’d

Vpon my weaknesse since you witnesse for me,

It was not ill discharg’d, I will not mention, [20]

Nor now, if age had not depriu’d me of

The little strength I had to gouerne well,

The Prouince that I vndertooke, forsake it.

Nou. That we could lend you of our yeeres. 

That we could lend you of our yeeres.

Du Croy. Or strength. 

Or strength.

Nou. Or as you are, perswade you to continue [25] The noble exercise of your knowing iudgement. 

Or as you are, perswade you to continue [25]

The noble exercise of your knowing iudgement.

Roch. That may not be, nor can your Lordships goodnes, Since your imployments haue confer’d vpon me Sufficient wealth, deny the vse of it, And though old age, when one foot’s in the graue, [30] In many, when all humors else are spent Feeds no affection in them, but desire To adde height to the mountaine of their riches: In me it is not so, I rest content With the honours, and estate I now possesse, [35] And that I may haue liberty to vse, What Heauen still blessing my poore industry, Hath made me Master of: 

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