I have been (as your Majesty knoweth best) never author of any immoderate counsel, but always desired to have things carried _suavibus modis_.

I have been no avaricious oppressor of the people.

I have been no haughty or intolerable or hateful man, in my conversation or carriage.

I have inherited no hatred from my father, but am a good patriot born.

Whence should this be?
For these are the things that use to raise dislikes abroad." And he ended by entreating the King to help him: "That which I thirst after, as the hart after the streams, is that I may know by my matchless friend [Buckingham] that presenteth to you this letter, your Majesty's heart (which is an _abyssus_ of goodness, as I am an _abyssus_ of misery) towards me.