He was of a _middling stature_, his countenance had in-dented with _Age_ before he was old; his _Presence_ grave and comely; of a high-flying and lively _Wit_, striving in some things to be rather admired than understood, yet so quick and easie where he would express himself, and his _Memory_ so strong and active, that he appeared the _Master_ of a large and plenteous _store-house_ of _Knowledge_, being (as it were) _Natures Midwife_, stripping her _Callou-brood_, and clothing them in new _Attire_. His _Wit_ was quick to the last; for _Gondemar_ meeting him the _Lent_ before his _Censure_, and hearing of his _Miscarriages_, thought to pay him with his _Spanish Sarcasms_ and _Scoffs_, saying, _My Lord, I wish you a good Easter_; _And you my Lord_, replyed the _Chancellor_, _a good Passeover_: For he could neither close with his _English Buffonerie_, nor his _Spanish Treaty_ (which _Gondemar_ knew) though he was so wise as publiquely to oppose neither. _In fine, he was a fit Jewel to have beautified, and adorned a flourishing Kingdom, if his flaws had not disgraced the lustre that should have set him off._ 10. By THOMAS FULLER. [Sidenote: An essay at his character.] None can character him to the life, save himself. He was _in parts_, more than a Man, who in any Liberal profession, might be, whatsoever he would himself. A great Honourer of _antient Authors_, yet a great Deviser and Practiser of new waies in Learning. Privy Counsellor, as to King JAMES, so to _Nature_ it self, diving into many of her abstruse Mysteries. New conclusions he would _dig out_ with _mattocks_ of _gold & silver_, not caring what his experience cost him, expending on the _Trials of Nature_, all and more than he got by the _Trials at the Barre_, Posterity being the better for his, though he the worse for his own, dear experiments. He and his Servants had _all in common_, the _Men_ never wanting what their _Master_ had, and thus what came _flowing_ in unto him, was sent _flying_ away from him, who, in giving of rewards knew no _bounds_, but the _bottome_ of his own purse. Wherefore when King James heard that he had given _Ten pounds_ to an _under-keeper_, by whom He had sent him a _Buck_, the King said merrily, _I and He shall both die Beggars_, which was condemnable Prodigality in a _Subject_. He lived many years after, and in his Books will ever survive, in the reading whereof, modest Men commend him, in what they doe, condemn themselves, in what they doe not understand, as believing the fault in their own eyes, and not in the object. 11. By WILLIAM RAWLEY.