ir Lives, Conversations and Merits as well as Names, and
Faces, are known to your Majesty as the Companions of _Caesar_ were: Honour
is safe under your Banner, and the Court so well regulated, that there is
no need of _Censors_ to inspect Mens Manners; _vita principis pro censura
est_. He who knowes that every body eyes, speaks and writes of him, cannot
in prudence, or think, or act things unworthy and abject: You Sir direct
all your objects and motions so, as may recommend you to posterity; and
even burn with desires of immortality, so as Histories may relate the
Truth without fear or adulation.

How happy then those Servants of yours, whose fidelity and Industry is
known to your Majesty, not from the interpretation and reports of others,
but your own experience! So as you Reward as well with Judgment, as
Bounty; and verily that is true Beneficence to place your Recompense as
well equally as freely: Most other Virtues are competent to the rest of
Men; Beneficence only to a Prince, as his most Essential property, and the
noblest ingredient of his _Elogy_. Hence that great Saint, as well as
Courtier and Prelate has directed, _Si quis Principem laudare vellet,
nihil illi adeo decorum adscriberet quam Magnificentiam_; [SN: _S.
Chrysost._] and _Criticks_ observe, that where the wise King _Solomon_
sayes, _Multi colunt personam Principis_, the _Hebrew_ version reads it,
_personam Benefici_, as importing both; and in that of his Who was greater
then _Solomon_, _Qui dominantur eorum Benefici vocantur_, the _Chaldy_
turnes, _Principes vocantur_, as if by a convertible figure, He could not
be a Prince who were not Beneficent; nor he that is truly Beneficent,
unworthy of that Title. I remember 'tis somewhere said of _Saul_ that he
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 w