New Atlantis (utopian novel)

people your chief treasury original: "Exchequer"; historically, the government department responsible for receiving and managing royal revenues. The author suggests that the King's true wealth lies in his people's love rather than their taxes.?

Yet, even though your extraordinary mercy original: "Clemencie" emboldens me to take this liberty, I am not so conceited original: "Opinionative" about these weak efforts of mine as to think them worthy of Your Majesty's review, or in any way able to add to your royal judgment or heroic virtues. For rivers add little or nothing to the sea original: "the Main", even though they naturally send their common tribute there. It is my loyalty and gratitude, then, that instruct me to lay these few gleanings of wholesome laws and customs prostrate, along with myself, at your sacred feet. And as I renounce any claim of merit, so I beg Your Majesty to believe that I offer these small streams original: "Rivulets" to the ocean of your royal goodness, only out of a desire to fulfill the duty of a faithful subject.