He had pure _Notions_ in _Conception_, but could bring few of them into _Action_, though they tended to his own _Preservation_: For this was one of his _Apothegms_, which he made no timely use of. _Let that Prince, that would beware of Conspiracies, be rather jealous of such, whom his extraordinary favours have advanced, than of those whom his displeasure hath discontented. These want means to execute their Pleasures, but they have means at pleasure to execute their desires_. Ambition to rule is more vehement than Malice to revenge. Though the last part of this _Aphorism_, he was thought to practice too soon, where there was no cause for prevention, and neglect too late, when time was full ripe to produce the effect. Some _Parallel'd_ him to _Tiberius_ for _Dissimulation_, yet _Peace_ was maintained by him as in the Time of _Augustus_; And _Peace_ begot _Plenty_, and _Plenty_ begot _Ease_ and _Wantonness_, and _Ease_ and _Wantonnesse_ begot _Poetry_, and _Poetry_ swelled to that _bulk_ in his time, that it begot strange _Monstrous Satyrs_, against the King[s] own person, that haunted both _Court_, and _Country_, which exprest would be too bitter to leave a sweet perfume behind him. And though bitter ingredients are good to imbalm and preserve dead _bodies_, yet these were such as might indanger to kill a living name, if _Malice_ be not brought in with an _Antidote_. And the tongues of those times, more fluent than my _Pen_, made every little _miscarriage_ (being not able to discover their true operations, like smal _seeds_ hid in earthy _Darknesse_) grow up, and spread into such exuberant _branches_, that evil _Report_ did often pearch upon them. So dangerous it is for _Princes_, by a _Remisse Comportment_, to give growth to the least _Error_; for it often proves as _fruitful_ as _Malice_ can make it. 2. By SIR ANTHONY WELDON. This Kings Character is much easier to take then his Picture, for he could never be brought to sit for the taking of that, which is the reason of so few good peeces of him; but his Character was obvious to every eye.