I beseech you return them with all haste, for I get no money till they be under seal." But her Majesty would not put them under her seal, much to the favourite's discomfiture.
"Your letter yieldeth but cold answer," he wrote, two days afterwards.
"Above all things yet that her Majesty doth stick at, I marvel most at her refusal to sign my book of assurance; for there passeth nothing in the earth against her profit by that act, nor any good to me but to satisfy the creditors, who were more scrupulous than needs.

I did complain to her of those who did refuse to lend me money, and she was greatly offended with them.

But if her Majesty were to stay this, if I were half seas over, I must of necessity come back again, for I may not go without money.

I beseech, if the matter be refused by her, bestow a post on me to Harwich.

I lie this night at Sir John Peters', and but for this doubt I had been to-morrow at Harwich.