Of what they ought to follow, or eschew.) And, I well knowing, that your MAIESTIES Set foorth before my _Booke_, in _Emblem-wise_, Throughout your Lands, more _Vertues_ might convay, Than many _Volumes_, of these _Emblems_, may; It seemed _Petty-treason_, to omit This good occasion of endeavouring it. For, (if your MAIESTIES, well heeded, were) YOV, double-treble-foure-fold _Emblems_ are; Which, fully to illustrate, would require The _Wit_ I want; or, meanes to raise, that, higher Which I have gain’d; (and, which, as yet, hath flowne By no incouragements, but by her owne.) Of all the _Vertues_ OECONOMICAL, Of _Duties_ MORAL and POLITICALL, Your _Lives_ are _Patternes_, and faire EMBLEMS; whether Considered apart, or both together. Your CHILDHOODS were bright _Mirrours_, which did show What Duties, _Children_, to their _Parents_ owe: And, by the sequele, we now understand, That, they who best _obay’d_, can best command. The glorious _Vertues_ of your NVPTIALL-_state_, Your _Courtiers_, find so hard to imitate, That, they admire them, rather; and would sweare, (Had others told, what, now they see and heare) That, all the former Times, were not acquainted, With such a _Paire_, when _Kings_ and _Queenes_ were _Sainted_. The chastest _Cupids_, and the gamesom’st _Graces_, Are alwaies mingled in your _Deare-embraces_. The mutuall enterchanges of your _Loves_, May teach affection to the _Turtle-doves_: And, such as are, with goodly sights, delighted, May see in _You_, all _Excellence_ united. You, SIR, who beare _Ioves_ Thunders in your Fist, And, (shake this _Ilands_ EMPIRE, when You list) Did never in your _Orbe_, a _Tempest_ move, But, by the Beautious _Mistresse_ of your _Love_ It might be calm’d. _And, in your lofty =Spheare=, Most lovely QVEENE, Your Motions ever, were So smoath, and, so direct; that, none can say, They have withdrawne his Royall-heart away From Iust =Designes=; Which, loudly speakes your =Praise=, And, intimates much more, than, yet, it saies._ Yea, both Your _Splendors_ doe so glorious growe, And, You, each other have out-vyed so, In these, and other _Vertues_; that, on You, Should I conferre what praise, I thinke, is due, My _Lines_, (which from that staine have, yet, beene cleare) Would Flatt’ry seeme, unto an envious eare. But, what needs _Flatt’ry_, where the _Truth_ may teach To praise, beyond immodest _Flatt’ries_ reach? Or, what needs he to feare a _sland’rous-mouth_, Who seekes no _meed_, nor utters more than Truth? Your Princely _Vertues_, what can better show, Than _Peace_, and _Plenty_, which have thrived so, Whilst You have raign’d that, yet, no people see, A _Richer_, or more _Peacefull_ time, than wee? Your _Civill Actions_ (to the publike eye)