For my own part, I never in my life began a letter more at a venture than the present.

Fye, you confine your ſelfe moſt vnreaſonably: Come, you muſt go viſit the good Lady that lies in.

Backbiting talk that flattering blabs know wily how to blenge.

In a word, there has hardly been any great event, in any part of Europe, in which the Britiſh crown by its miniſters, or the inhabitants of Britain by their valour, have not had a conſiderable part. Sir Thomas Chaloner attended the Emperor Charles V. in his African expedition. The Earl of Eſſex commanded the Engliſh auxiliaries in the ſervice of Henry IV. of France. To ſay nothing of our hoſtile expeditions, in ſupport of the claim of our monarchs to the crown of that kingdom; or of the aſſiſtances given to the French kings, in oppoſition to that claim by the Scots.