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They, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct theirspeech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in aprivate condition, write that which they foresee may advance thepublic good; I suppose them, as at the beginning of no meanendeavour, not a little altered and moved inwardly in their minds:some with doubt of what will be the success, others with fear ofwhat will be the censure; some with hope, others with confidence ofwhat they have to speak. And me perhaps each of these dispositions,as the subject was whereon I entered, may have at other timesvariously affected; and likely might in these foremost expressionsnow also disclose which of them swayed most, but that the veryattempt of this address thus made, and the thought of whom it hathrecourse to, hath got the power within me to a passion, far morewelcome than incidental to a preface.