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To the Kings most sacred Maiesty./
Most graciouse Soueraigne, as there is a woe to the lande
when the
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kinge is a child, whether in
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yeeres or understandinge Eccles. 10.16.
or both: Soe is there an incomparable blessinge, when hee is the Corinth 1.14.
sonne of such Nobles, as are by Syracides commended to succeedinge Ecclesiastices 39.
ages for examples of Wisedome and pietye. Such a one was Kinge
Salomon, whose excellent wisedome appeared in noe one thinge
more gloriously then in that renowned
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iudgment of the true 1 Kings .3.
and naturall mother of the liueinge Childe. Out of which selfe
experiment hee might well write prouerbially, as hee did: The Prouerb: 25.1.
glory of God is to conceale a thinge secret; but the Kings ho=
nor is to search out a thinge. Whose undoubted sonne your
Gr:ace is, because you treade the footstepps of his profounde hea=
uenly learneinge and wisedome: appearenige most manifestly in
your late sharpe sentence, that those sonnes of the Muses might
not rightly challenge drowsy Morpheus for their right Father.
which I may therefore boldly remember without assentation, bee=
cause it pleased God to make mee the foile of your so vnspeak=
able glory. Hard and difficult thinges are fitt subiects for
Kings.
Nec Rex intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.
And heere I must reagnize that there was then in mee such a
nodositie or vnrelentinge humour of presumption towards your
Gr:ace contracted, as could by noe hand but a Kings bee dissipated
and dissolued. This was morbus Cacoethes, morbus mali movis,
which I may truely call morbus Regius, the Kinges Euill: wher=
unto was due that Charisma sanationis, which soe gratiously
and reddily was then conferred; and that in the place approued
by the Poet.
Regius