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If I had overslipt the good occasion then in danger, I had been worthy to be hanged, and to be taken for a most lewd servant to her Majesty, and a dishonest wretch to my country." But diligently as Heneage had sought to the bottom of all things, he had not gained the approbation of Sidney.

Sir Philip thought that the new man had only ill botched a piece of work that had been most awkwardly contrived from the beginning.

"Sir Thomas Heneage," said he, "hath with as much honesty, in my opinion done as much hurt as any man this twelve-month hath done with naughtiness.