Reign'd but two years; because he was so long it seems good to his people,
and reigned in their hearts; For as the Sun himself should not be the Sun,
if he did not shine; no more should a Prince be worthy of his dignity, if
he unjustly Ecclips'd his influence, or abused his Magnificency. But as we
said, this virtue is added to your Majesties also; who know so well to
adjust its Definition by your constant practice, rendering it (as indeed
it ought) productive of your will for glorious and honest ends only; But I
now proceed with the rest.

There is such a Majesty in your Countenance, such Lenity in your Eyes,
gravity in your speech, as that for your gracefull presence that may be
truly affirm'd of you what was once appli'd to a great Prince resembling
you, _Jam firmitas, Jam proceritas corporis, jam honor Capitis & dignitas
oris, ad hoc ætatis 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