Pleaseth it your worthy Exelensy: your poore yet faythfull saruant togetther with my wiffe, remember our humbell scerues to your selffe, and our much deserueing Mris. your wiffe. my dewty I haue too much foregot in that I haue not written to your worship since your departuer from Groten. one cheefe causse was that I hoped that of your Clemensy, you would haue beggune to me. I if I mistake not desiered you would bene pleased to haue maede some Report of the Country to me; some other Reasons I could allege, that weeare too longe heeare to inscerte: thearefore I desier you that of your Beneggnyty you would not judg of my faythfull loyallty towardes you by my neglecct to wright to you: nor yet that I haue Demas lyke imbrased this present world because that I am constraiened to dwell in Mesheak, but yourselffe knowes that Miphibosheth his lambenes kept him from goeing with Daued, though it weere to his great greefe; through his faithlesse saruant Sibie euen so vnscertayne estate haue tyed me short, so that in bodyly presentes I can not be wheare I would desier to be; but neither the want nor increase of these thinges can clippe the wingges of my ernest and ardent affections, which are dayly liffted vp to god conscerning his Church with you theare in Jewery, and your selfe and yours in a speshall manner, whombe I know to be worthy of dubell honouer, and deutty bind me in an vnuiellabl bond both now and 355all way to commend you to the blesseing of godes grasse, and doe desier you to remember me though vnworthy that god would of his mersi be pleased to keepe me vndefilled and make me more zeluse: in these poleuted plases and declying tymes Amen. Your saruant to command