“...And Accordinge As I Desired Ther Cam a Letter...”
John Dowland
[Extract from a letter to Sir Robert Cecil]
"...and accordinge as I desired ther cam a letter to me out of Germany from the Duke of Brunswicke, wherupon I spake to your honor and to my Lord of Essex, who willingly gav me both your hands (for which I wold be glad if ther wear any service in me that yor honors coulde comande). When I cam to the Duke he used me kindly, and gave me a ritch chaine of golde...with velvet and
Saten and gold lace to make me aparell, with promyse that if I wolde serv him he wolde gev me as mutch as any prince in the worlde..."