...excellent power and earneflnefs. MI ord A A7^^ as Puc^ confidence, as mine own honest, and faithfull ' VV Devotion unto your Service, and your honourable Correspondence...in a Man, do I commend myself unto your Lordship. I waxe now somewhat ancient; One and thirty yeares, is a great deal of sand, in the Houre-glasse. My...

...made in a simple good faith which is as far as possible from vain boastfulness. " MY LORD — With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful...in a man, do I commend myself unto your Lordship. I wax>now somewhat ancient , one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour glass. My health,...

...not absurd. TO MY LORD TREASURER BURGHLEY From ' Letters and Life,' by James Spedding My Lord: WITH as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful devotion unto your service and your honorable correspondence unto me and my poor estate can breed in a man, do I commend myself unto your...

...the draft of which appears in the Supplement to Rawley's " Resuscitatio." It begins : " My Lord, with as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful...in a man, do I commend myself unto your Lordship. / wax now somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour glass. My health,...

...twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth OLD AGE " I wax now somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour glass." — Letter to BurgUey (1592). " Her Majesty's being begun in my first years, I would be...

...for help i in the furtherance of his ambition,— i "My Lord,— With as much confidence as mine I own honest and faithful devotion unto your service...commend myself unto your Lordship. I wax now somewhat 1 ancient : one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass. My health, I thank God,...

...hour. He conformed to the requirements of popular speech. The drama is not science. Cf. Bacon: "I waif now somewhat ancient; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-gla^s." — Letter to Burleigh, 1591. Ari. Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains,...

...that was finally confirmed by Dryden. WILLIAM MINTO. LETTER TO LORD BURGHLEY IN 1591 MY LORD—With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful...myself unto your lordship. I wax now somewhat ancient ; one-and-thirty is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass. My health, I thank God, I find confirmed...

...not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee. somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour glass." l At the age of thirty-nine he talks about " my last years ; for so I account them, reckoning...

...not absurd. TO MY LORD TREASURER BURGHLEY From 'Letters and Life,' by James Spedding My Lord: WITH as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful devotion unto your service and your honorable correspondence unto me and my poor estate can breed in a man, do I commend myself unto your...