the Life of the Prince is a sufficient Censor, he is a shining Example to all, in what they should avoid, and what they should pursue. Good and learned Men which may profit the Commonwealth, he highly esteems; with these he is conversant, and, laying aside his Majesty, treats them as Friends and Equals; yea, he emulates their Virtues without Respect, whether they are Paternal and Hereditary, or acquired by their own Industry. With these, he spends the little Time he can spare from public Business: These are the Persons highly esteem’d by him, as judging it a public Benefit to restore due Honour to Vertue. He himself being curious by Nature, and desirous to know something worthy of a Man, has always some Questions to propose to the Learned; and sometimes he brings in some smart and genteel Repartees of his own, to the Admiration of his Hearers. Thus he hath laid in so considerable a Stock of Learning, that you cannot question him in any Thing, but he can give you some Account of it. He understands many Languages; first, the _Spanish_, which is his _Mother-Tongue_; next the _French_, _German_, _Latin_, and _Italian_: He can express his Meaning pretty well in the _Latin_, yet not so exactly, but that sometimes he breaks _Priscian_’s Head; a Fault blameworthy in a _Gramarian_, but excusable in an _Emperor_. What I have said of him, all Men living know to be true; but, perhaps, some may think it a Defect, that he is not enough given to Arms, and Atchievements worthy of the Laurel: For, say they, the _Turks_ carry all in _Hungary_, and we do not help nor relieve them, as we ought; we should have join’d Armies in the Field, that it might be known whom Providence would have to bear Rule. I confess this Objection savours of Bravery, more than of Prudence, and therefore, let me trace the Matter a little higher. I am of his Opinion, That the _Genius_ of Emperors are to be judged of rather by their Councils, than by their Fortunes or Events; and that, by those Councils, the Times, our own Strength, the Nature and Power of our Enemies are to be regulated. If a common Enemy, well known to us, and famous for no Victory, should invade our Borders, ’twere Cowardice not to oppose him, if we have Forces enough. But if the Enemy be such as seem to be sent as a Scourge from God (such was _Atila_ of old, _Tamerlane_ in the Days of our Forefathers, and the _Ottoman Princes_ in our Age) whom nothing can withstand, who lays all waste before him; to oppose such an Enemy with small and new-levied Forces, would not only be rash, but even Madness itself. _Solyman_ comes terrible, by his own and his Ancestor’s Successes: He invades _Hungary_ with 200,000 Horse, he draws near to _Austria_, and threatens the rest of _Germany_; his Troops are fetched from the very Confines of _Persia_; his Army is furnished from many Nations; each of the Three known Parts of the World conspire therein for our Destruction: He, like