=By this reason, we do call the most secrete place in the house, appropriate vnto our owne priuate studies, and wherein wee repose and deliberate by deepe consideration of all our waightiest affaires, a |Closet|, in true intendment and meaning, a place where our dealings of importance are shut vp, a roome proper and peculiar to our selues. And whereas into each other place of the house, it is ordinarie for euery néere attendant about vs to haue accesse: in this place we doe solitarie and alone shut vp our selues, of this we keepe the key our selues, and the vse thereof alone doe onelie appropriate vnto our selues.=
=And if we should run but into the nature of things secret, and consider by the name, what to such a matter is required, we shall find that of it owne selfe it chalengeth so much, wherby with three things most speciallie it is saide to be fortified, |viz.| with |couertnes|, that it be closelie kept from the eyes, eares or vnderstanding of others: |Safetie|, that securelie it be retained, and laid vp, both with choice respect and tendering: |Assurance|, that by no mistake, negligence, or defect of the partie hauing charge of such a secrete, it may turne to a preiudice.=
=Thus then by the concurrence of these, it appeareth that vnto euerie |secrete| there is required a |Closet|, and the proper vse of that |Closet|, is onelie for the |couertnesse, saftie| and |assurance| of the |secrete|: all which considered, let vs nowe see, if you will, what |analogie| or proportion they haue with our |Secretorie|.=
=It hath beene alreadie before alledged, that by the verie |etimologie| of the worde it selfe, both |Name| and |Office| in one, doe conclude vppon |secrecie|: If so, then in respect of the |couertnes, safetie| and |assurance| in him reposed, and not otherwise, the partie seruing in such place may be called a |Secretorie|. The |Closet| in euerie house, as it is a reposement of |secrets|, so is it onelie (as I saide before) at the owners, and no others commaundement: The |Secretorie|, as hee is a |keeper and conseruer of secrets|, so is hee by his Lorde or Maister, and by none other to bee directed. To a |Closet|, there belongeth properlie, a |doore|, a |locke|, and a |key|: to a |Secretorie|, there appertaineth incidentlie, |Honestie, Care|, and |Fidelitie|.=