Excerpt from The Complete Prose Works (Including Hitherto Unpublished Mss) Of Sir John Davies, Vol. 1 of 2: For the First Time Collected and Edited; With Fac-Simile, Memorial, Introduction and Notes One thing has struck me, that the more the State Papers Of the period are examined the more evident does it become that Sm J onx davies was the ruling intellect and will Of the administration in Ireland nor less so that he was a many-sided and large-hearted statesman. It is easv for your elbow-chair critic to dispute the conclusions of one who knows better from actual reading and study, and glibly as emptily to treat as enthusiasm an Editor's conscience-ruled verdict on the evidence: easy to accept traditional criticism and deny the genius of Nosce Teipsum and Orchestra, but whoso broods over them will agree that as Poet as well as Thi: .ker and Statesman, Sir John Davies' position demands re-settlement and elevation. That he will find such by-and-bye I do not for a moment doubt. Toward it I am gratefully proud to have completed his Works in Verse and Prose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.