To conclude, he had asmuch in him of gifts both of bodie, mind and fortune, as was possible for anie potentate or king to haue. His politike wisedome in gouernance was singular, his wit alwaie quicke and readie, his reason pithie and substantiall, his memorie fresh and holding, his experience notable, his counsels fortunate and taken by wise deliberation, his spéech gratious in diuerse languages, his person (as before ye haue heard) right comelie, his naturall complexion of the purest mixture, leagues and confederations he had with all christian princes. His mightie power was dread euerie where, not onelie within his realme but without. Also his people were to him in as humble subjection as euer they were to king; his land manie a daie in peace and tranquillitie, his prosperitie in battell against his enimies was maruellous, his dealing in time of perils and dangers was cold and sober, with great hardinesse. If anie treason were conspired against him, it came out wonderfullie. His buildings most goodlie, and after the newest cast, all of pleasure. And so this king liuing all his time in fortunes fauour, in high honour, wealth and glorie, for his noble acts and prudent policies is woorthie to be registred in the booke of fame, least time (the consumer of all worthie things) should blot out the memorie of his name here in earth, whose soule we trust liueth in heauen, enioieng the fruition of the godhead, & those pleasures prepared for the faithfull. [In memorie of whome, his manifold vertues, with the fortunate successe of his affaires, and the gratious descent of his loines, as they procured a famous report in nations farre and néere; so haue some at the contemplation of his princelinesse, and euerie waie crowned with felicitie, made memorials of his magnificence; to the immortalitie of his high praise and vnblemishable renowme: among whome (for the truth of the report iustifiable by the contents of this historie) one commeth to mind, which may well serue for an epitaph: Septimus Henricus factis est nomen adeptus Præclarum claris ventura in secula famæ: Ciuibus ille suis fuerat charissimus, hostes Omnes iure ipsum metuebant: numinis almi Relligiosus erat cultor, pietatis & æqui, Versutos hominésque malos vehementiùs odit. Viginti totos charus trésque ampliùs annos Regibus externis in summo vixit honore: Magnanimus, iustus rex, prudens atque modestus, Henrico hæredi moriens sua regna reliquit, Diuitiásque, immensum argenti pondus & auri. [Sidenote: _Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 892._] [Sidenote: Sepulture of Henrie the seuenth.] [Sidenote: Executors to Henrie the suenth.]