associates in the same exercises, that were able to follow him. [Sidenote: Of his adolescence.] [Sidenote: _Erotema._] [Sidenote: _Parenthesis._] [Sidenote: _Meiosis._] [Sidenote: _Auxesis._] [Sidenote: _Epanodus._ His mans estate.] [Sidenote: His outward actions.] [Sidenote: His inward vertues.] [Sidenote: _Hypotiposis._] [Sidenote: His bounty & great humility.] [Sidenote: His modestie.] [Sidenote: _Parenthesis._] [Sidenote: _Sententia._] [Sidenote: Parenthesis.] [Sidenote: Merismus.] [Sidenote: Allegoria.] [Sidenote: Confirmatiō.] [Sidenote: Hypotiposis.] [Sidenote: _Epiphonema._] [Sidenote: _Emphasis._] [Sidenote: _Antipophora._] [Sidenote: _Commoratiō._] [Sidenote: _Confutatiō._] [Sidenote: _Synonymia._] [Sidenote: Praise of his death.] [Sidenote: _Epiphonema._] [Sidenote: _Peroratiō._] [Sidenote: _Ecphonesis._] [Sidenote: _Articulus._] Nowe if wee shall come to his riper yeares, and howe therein hee profited in the towardlie exercise and vse of armes, beeseeming a Prince of so high and exspected admiration, what coulde bee wished in anie one that in him was not fullie accomplished. So comelie, and with such vncontrouled dexteritie coulde hee sitte, ride and gouerne his horse, so couragiously, and with such nobilitie coulde hee welde and vse any weapon, either at tilte, barriers or turney, with such high and woonderfull direction, ordered hee all his complementes to either of these belonging, as did well manifest the magnanimitie and worthinesse of his minde, and what manner a one hee woulde afterwardes become toward the beautifying of his countrie. A more plaine and euident demonstration whereof, did at any one time in nothinge so much appeare as euen then, when hee was yet in his minoritie. For when there was remaining as then, no signe or token at all of manlie shewe in his face (beeing neuer the lesse of stature seemelie and tall, and of goodlie constitution in his bodie, well beseeming the yeares hee then caried) also attendante on the mightie King his father in the warres of Fraunce: what thinges did hee there perfourme? what weightie enterprises, and those beyonde all expectation would hee vndertake, in honour of his royall progenie: was it not too straunge, that beeing in comparison of yeares, as it were a childe, deuoide of so confirmed and auncient graffed experience as beseemed the warres, hee vndertooke notwithstanding at eighteene yeares of age, with halfe his fathers power (by a most couragious desire of an euerthirsting glorie, with condition and charge either there to eternize his death by an euerlasting memorie, or backe to returne againe with triumphant gained victorie) to ioine with the whole and mightie power of Fraunce, and all the Chiualrie thereof, where (to his immortall and surpassing high renowne) hee attained vppon them by the high permission of God, a most memorable Tropheie? But why dwell I in these slender discourses (small God knowes in respect of those mightie conquestes by him