Thematic Bible: Tertullus flatters felix

so Paul was call'd, and Tertullus thus open'd the charge. "The happiness our nation enjoys, most noble Felix, by the wisdom of your administration, affects us too sensibly not to be acknowledg'd every where, and upon all occasions, with the utmost gratitude. but not to trespass upon you too far, be pleas'd to hear what I have to say in brief, with your usual indulgence.