Original Letters or Eminent Literary Men &c

Right worshipfull and my singlar good Maister, Although I perceive your labour for my restitution to the roume of Schole-maister in Eton not to have taken suche effecte as your Maister-shippes good will and mynd was, yet dooe I (as I am moste bound to dooe) for your gret travaill, peines, and trouble in that behalf susteined, rendre noo lesse thankes then if it had succeded and cum to passe accordyng to my request and your maister-shippes expectacion. And havyng your Maistershippes favour, I am and shall be as well contented that my suite hath not taken place, as I wold have been glad to have recovered that roume which I was never desirous to obtein, but oonly of an honest purpose to discharge my debtes, and by litle and litle as I might to paye every man his own; most humbly besechyng your maistership to extend your benigne favour towardes that purpose, and of your aboundaunt pitie to sette your helpyng hand to the bestowyng of me to suche condition where I maye by sobre livyng bee recovered to sum state of an honest man. Leat not despair soo depely entre into your moste gentle herte to thynke me past emendemente, but rather call to mynd that Plynius saieth turn demum præcipuam esse dementiæ laudem, cum iræ causa justissima est. He needeth noo mercie nor forgevenes that hath not offended.