Although it be true that many reportes from Mounster of your proceedinges synce Tyrone came thither, do give an occasion to those who wish you ill there, to number you amongst the ill affected subjects, yet tyll it be heard from yuorself, and seene by more infaylable proofes, your frends yt know you, cannot but retayne that assured opynion which they have ever conceaved of your miseparable duty towards your gracyous soveraigne. For first it is as well knowen to me as to any man lyving that Hir Majesty in her owne nature hath ever ben so farre from condemning you heretofore, and when dyvers of her counsell have urged circumstances against you, she dyd over conclude you inwardly faithfull toher. Next methinks, when I remember you Mr. Florence a wyse and cyvill genttleman generally beloved of their sort, and partyculerly esteemed by dyverse of extraordynary place and credytt, I am so farre from beliefe that you have incorporated yourselfe with the combynacion of savag traytours, as I doe assure myselfe that the manner of your formall assocyating, or temporysing with them in this confusion hath no other end then thereby to inable you to shewe yor resolucyon and affectyon to doe Hir Majesty service. In doeing whereof (even now when greatest tryall may be made of valour and duty) you are assured to gayue yourself honour quyet, and happynes. Thus have I now playnly shewed you my beliefe, from which I protest nothing can remove me but yourselfe, wherein, yf I be deceaved, (which yet I hold impossyble,) let me in requytall of all former goodwill heare from you what is true, or false; and then shall I conclude there is no fayth in Israell. If otherwise it be, and if you haue any secret purpose, and honest desires to make knowen, let me be informed of them; and I will impt it to Her Majesty, who styll laugheth at ye folly of any of those flying bruets which do but tend to suspycion of any resolved defectyon in you; and I assure myselfe would be more pleased with any good servyces that you shold do her then with ten tymes so much of others, whom she knoweth not, nor values not. You may be no we assured of all ye favour which ye Presydent can shewe you, for the Queen dyd pryncypally recomend you to hym, and of myselfe you may expect all ye offices which your good carryag can deserve from him that hath ever ben yor loving freend.