hat was once appli'd to a great Prince resembling
you, _Jam firmitas, Jam proceritas corporis, jam honor Capitis & dignitas
oris, ad hoc aetatis indeflexa maturitas, nonne longe lateque principem
ostentant?_ since even all these assemble in your Majesties personage; Nor
has fortune chang'd you after all your Travels and Adventures abroad; but
brought you back to us not so much as tinged in the percolations through
which you have been forc'd to run, like the Fountain _Arethusa_ through
the River _Alpheus_ without commixture of their waters. None having more
constantly retained his vertue then your Majesty, nor guarded it with more
caution.

And now in all this height of glory, you receive all Men with so much
humility, that the difference of your change seems to be only this; that
you are now beloved of more, and love more, treating every man, as if
every man were your proper care, and as becomes the Father of so great a
Family; Sometimes you are pleased to lay more aside the beams of Majesty,
that you may descend to do mutual offices of Friendship; as considering
that these Virtues were not concredited to you by God, for your self only,
but for others also: In short, you are so perfect a Prince, that those who
come after you, will fear to be compared to you, _Experti quam sit
onerosum succedere bono Principi_; since to possess your Virtues, they
must support your sufferings; nor can every head know how to sustain the
weight of such a Crown as yours, where the thornes have so long perplext
the Lillies and the Roses of it.

I might here mention Your Heroic and masculine Spirit in dangers, and yet
Your foresight of them; Your tenderness to compassionate, Your Constancie
in suffering, Your Modestie in Prosperitie, Equalitie in Adversitie, and
that sweetness of access which attracts both love and veneration from all
that converse with You; but these have already adorn'd your Character by
that excellent Hand who did lately describe it. [SN: _Col. Tuke._]

You are frequent at Councels, Patient in hearing, pertinent in answering,
judicious in Determining, and so skilfull in the several Languages, that
You many times transact by Your self, what others do by Interpreters;
affecting rather expedition in Your affairs, then insignificant State,
which these acquired parts of Your Majesties do yet augment so much the
more.

You are curious of brave and Laudable things; You love shipping,
Buildings, Gardens (having exceeded _Cyrus_