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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.
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