I know mine own heart, and I know not whether God that hath touched my heart with the affection may not touch your royal heart to discern it.

Howsoever, I shall at least go on honestly in mine ordinary course, and supply the rest in prayers for you, remaining, etc." This is no hasty outburst.

In a later paper on the true way of retrieving the disorders of the King's finances, full of large and wise counsel, after advising the King not to be impatient, and assuring him that a state of debt is not so intolerable--"for it is no new thing for the greatest Kings to be in debt," and all the great men of the Court had been in debt without any "manner of diminution of their greatness"-- he returns to the charge in detail against Salisbury and the Great Contract.
"My second prayer is, that your Majesty--in respect to the hasty freeing of your state--would not descend to any means, or degree of means, which carrieth not a symmetry with your Majesty and greatness.

_He is gone from whom those courses did wholly flow._ To have your wants and necessities in particular as it were hanged up in two tablets before the eyes of your lords and commons, to be talked of for four months together; To have all your courses to help yourself in revenue or profit put into printed books, which were wont to be held _arcana imperii_; To have such worms of aldermen to lend for ten in the hundred upon good assurance, and with such entreaty ( ?) as if it should save the bark of your fortune; To contract still where mought be had the readiest payment, and not the best bargain; To stir a number of projects for your profit, and then to blast them, and leave your Majesty nothing but the scandal of them; To pretend even carriage between your Majesty's rights and ease of the people, and to satisfy neither.
These courses and others the like I hope are gone with the deviser of them; which have turned your Majesty to inestimable prejudice." And what he thought of saying, but on further consideration struck out, was the following.

It is no wonder that he struck it out, but it shows what he felt towards Cecil.
"I protest to God, though I be not superstitious, when I saw your M.'s book against Vorstius and Arminius, and noted your zeal to deliver the majesty of God from the vain and indign comprehensions of heresy and degenerate philosophy, as you had by your pen formerly endeavoured to deliver kings from the usurpation of Rome, _perculsit illico animum_ that God would set shortly upon you some visible favour, _and let me not live if I thought not of the taking away of that man_." And from this time onwards he scarcely ever mentions Cecil's name in his correspondence with James but with words of condemnation, which imply that Cecil's mischievous policy was the result of private ends.