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_ already in Your Plantations)
Piscinas, Statues, Pictures, Intaglias, Music: You have already amass'd
very many rare collections of all kinds, and there is nothing worthy and
great which can escape Your research.

Nor must I here forget the honour You have done our _Society_ at _Greshham
Colledge_ by Your curious enquiries about the _Load-Stone_, and other
particulars which concern _Philosophy_; since it is not to be doubted but
that{8} so Magnanimous a Prince, will still proceed to encourage that