=To this then I answer, that if the weight of |friendship|, so consisteth in a |simpathie| of affection, vniting of hearts, coueting anothers good, and despising all that maie be gained, in respect of the partie befriended: whie yet maie not our |Secretorie| as well as any other, merit neuerthelesse in this place of seruice at the handes of his L. or master, the name of a |Friend?| Why should he not therein aswell as anie other haue that power in him planted, whereby to become a |Friend?| Touching the equalitie of affections, though it is still laid down that therein ought to be no difference, & the |commander| and the |commanded|, do yet alwaies make a discordance: I maie neuerthelesse thus much deliuer thereof, that by all common likelihood it is assuredlie to be coniectured, that no one personage of estate, laieth choice vpon such a one to serue so néer about him, and to be in place of so great trust as appertaineth to a man of that reckoning, but ere he long haue vsed him, he bindeth vnto him at least some good part of his affection. For how can it otherwise be thought, but that our |Secretorie| being one euerie waie so waightilie to be imployed as he is, partaking as he doeth with so manie causes of importance, and vndiscouered secrets and counsels, standing as he must vpon so neere attendance, as hee that is almost (as occasion serueth) euerie minute of an houre to be vsed, but that to his L. or Master, he must of necessitie bee verie charie, and at the leastwise more particularlie then manie others, by a great deale to be beloued.=
=He then thus finding in so noble a place, so honourable an account, our |Secretorie| being as he ought to be, a man of |vertue|, and |worth|, cannot chose on yᵉ other side, but frame his vtmost thoughts correspondent in all things to those particular fauours, his conuersing, his neerenesse and attendance, turneth then to an affection, and this, heated by the dailie encrease of his Lord or maisters liking towardes him, groweth thence to a feruencie, and so each |vertue| kindled by the others |Grace|, maketh at last a coniunction, which by the multitude of fauors rising from the one, and a thankfull compensation alwayes procured in the other, groweth in the end to a |simpathie| vnseparable, and therby by all intendment concludeth a most perfect vniting.=