I pray the Court To ease me of my burthen, that I may Employ the small remainder of my life, [40] In liuing well, and learning how to dye so. 

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: I pray the Court

To ease me of my burthen, that I may

Employ the small remainder of my life, [40]

In liuing well, and learning how to dye so.

Rom. See sir, our Aduocate. 

See sir, our Aduocate.

Du Croy. The Court intreats, Your Lordship will be pleasd to name the man, Which you would haue your successor, and in me, All promise to confirme it. 

The Court intreats,

 Prev. P 60/285 next