with your higthnis; wiche I wolde not be so bold to desier, if I knewe
my selfe most clere as I knowe myselfe most tru. And as for the
traitor Wiat, he migth paraventur writ me a lettar; but, on my faithe,
I never receved any from him. And as for the copie of my lettar sent
to the Frenche kinge, I pray God confound me eternally, if ever I sent
him word, message, token, or lettar by any menes: and to this my
truith I will stande in to my dethe.

"Your Highnes most faithful subject that hathe bine from the
beginninge, and wylbe to my ende,

"ELIZABETH."

I humbly crave but only one worde of answer from your selfe.

_Ellis's Original Letters_.

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THE NOVELIST.

No. CXI.


THE MUTINY.


----O God!