5. Non judices quodcumque vides, nam qui judicat quodcumque videt sæpe judicat quod non est.
Do not judge on whatever thou seest, for he who judges on whatever he sees, will often form an erroneous judgment.[196]
June 3, 1611. “The Lady Arabella” escaped from her confinement.
To the Editor of the Every-Day Book.
Kennington, May 23, 1826.
Sir,—Annexed is an original unprinted letter, from the lady Arabella Seymour, whose misfortunes were of a peculiar kind, and from peculiar causes; those causes are to be traced to that tyrannic dread that weak sovereigns always have of any persons approaching their equals, either in mind, or by family ties. The following notices have been gleaned from the most authentic sources, viz. Lodge’s “Illustrations of British History,” “The Biographia Britannica,” &c. The letter is in the Cotton collection of Manuscripts, in the British Museum, Vespasian. F.III.
Though you be almost a stranger to me but onely by sight, yet the good opinion I generally heave to be held of your worth, together wt the great interest you have in my Lo. of Northamptons favour, makes me thus farre presume of your willingnesse to do a poore afflicted gentlewoman that good office (if in no other respect yet because I am a Christian) as to further me wt your best indeuors to his Lo. that it will please him to helpe me out of this great distresse and misery, and regaine me his Mats. fauor which is my chiefest desire. Whearin his Lo. may do a deede acceptable to God and honorable to himselfe, and I shall be infinitely bound to his Lo. and beholden to you, who now till I receiue some comfort from his Maty. rest
the most sorrowfull
creatore liuing