 | English literature - 1805 - 570 pages
...the perusal of the following letter to- Cecil, whkh has been preserved among the Burleigh papers. * Sir, I am not wise enough to give you advice ; but if you take it for a good counsel to relent toward this tyrant, you will repent it when it shall be too late. His malice is fixed, and will not... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...printed in ' Murdin's State-Papers,' which is too curious and too characteristic to be omitted : " Sir, I am not wise enough to give you advice ; but, if you take it for a good counsel to relent toward this tyrant, you will repent it when it shall be too late. His malice is fixed, and will not... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...printed in ' Murdin's State-Papers,' which is too curious and too characteristic to be omitted : " Sir, I am not wise enough to give you advice ; but, if you take it for a good counsel to relent toward this tyrant, you will repent it when it shall be too late. His malice is fixed, and will not... | |
 | 1822 - 962 pages
...only to truth. The letter and the speech, are too curious not to be recalled to our recollection : " Sir, — I am not wise enough to give you advice; but if you relent towards this tyrant, you will repent it when it shall be too late ; his malice is fixed, and... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - Great Britain - 1829 - 810 pages
...Right Honourable my very good Lord, the lord keeper of the great seal of England. To Sir Robert Cecil. SIR, I AM not wise enough to give you advice; but...counsel to relent towards this tyrant, you will repent it when it shall be too late. His malice is fixed, and will not evaporate by any of your mild courses... | |
 | sir Walter Ralegh - 1829 - 806 pages
...Right Honourable my very good Lord, the lord keeper of the great seal of England. To Sir Robert Cecil. SIR, I AM not wise enough to give you advice; but...counsel to relent towards this tyrant, you will repent it when it shall be too late. His malice is fixed, and will not evaporate by any of your mild courses... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Biography - 1834 - 304 pages
...It is too curious and too characteristic to be omitted : Sir Walter Raleigh to Sir Robert Cecil. " SIR, — " I am not wise enough to give you advice ; but if you take it for a good counsel to retreat towards the tyrant, you will repent it when it shall be too late. His malice is fixed, and... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 686 pages
...Burleigh Pavers. It is generally admitted that Essex was designated under the nickname of Bothwell : " base spirit is ever most concomitant with the proudest...never so many brave parts and so base and abject a s it, when it shall be too late. Bis malice is tixt, and will not evaporate by any your mild courses,... | |
 | J. F. Foard - 1861 - 592 pages
...SIR WALTER RALEIGH TO SIR ROBERT CECIL OX THE EXECCTIO.V OF ESSEX. (From Murdin, vol. ii. p. 811.) " SIR,— " I am not wise enough to give you advice,...counsel to relent towards this Tyrant, you will repent it, when it shall be too late. His malice is fixed, and will not evaporate by any of your mild courses,... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - Statesmen - 1877 - 338 pages
...relentless enemy, who would leave nothing undone that he could safely do to procure the Earl's destructioa "SIR,' " I am not wise enough to give you advice ;...counsel to relent towards this tyrant, you will repent it when it shall be too late. His malice is fixed and will not evaporate by any your mild courses ;... | |
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I am not wise enough to give you advice, but if you take it for a good counsel to relent towards this tyrant, you will repent it when it shall be too late. 
