A
CHARACTER
OF
CHARLES
THE
SECOND
.
IF
the
Naturalists
pretend
to
give
a
reason
why
the
Son
of
Croesus
,
who
had
been
dumb
from
his
Infancy
,
seeing
a
Souldier
ready
to
kill
his
Father
,
cryed
out
,
It
is
the
KING
!
The
force
of
Naturall
affection
breaking
those
strings
,
which
,
until
that
moment
,
had
tyed
his
tongue
:
Who
will
wonder
that
a
man
,
who
on
the
busie
Theater
of
his
Countrey
,
hath
hither
to
presented
the
Person
of
a
Mute
,
should
violate
his
resolutions
of
continuing
silent
,
when
he
sees
the
cursing
Shimei's
of
this
depraved
Nation
,
going
to
murther
the
good
fame
of
his
Master
,
his
Soveraign
,
and
the
common
Father
of
the
people
?
Therefore
since
my
zeal
to
Truth
,
my
veneration
for
Gods
Anointed
,
and
my
tendernesse
for
my
Countrey
hath
loosen'd
my
Tongue
,
I
have
taken
the
boldnesse
to
informe
the
deluded
People
what
manner
of
Man
he
is
,
against
whom
these
Serpents
have
spit
their
Venome
.
And
who
may
pretend
to
be
better
heard
,
or
more
believed
,
then
a
Person
who
hath
past
eighteen
Years
of
his
Time
,
in
the
Service
and
Court
of
this
Illustrious
PRINCE
?
And
who
dares
challenge
the
World
to
finde
in
the
whole
processe
of
his
Life
,
one
instance
of
the
least
deflexion
from
the
severest
rules
of
sincerity
;
which
yet
he
does
not
vainly
urge
to
enhaunse
his
Reputation
,
but
to
strengthen
his
evidence
,
humbly
acknowledging
,
that
he
does
not
owe
this
steddinesse
to
the
complexion
of
his
spirit
,
but
to
the
goodnesse
of
Almighty
God
,
who
resisteth
the
proud
,
and
giveth
grace
to
the
humble
.
But
before
I
begin
to
trace
the
first
Lines
of
this
Piece
,
I
conceive
it
very
necessary
to
discover
these
Incidents
,
which
have
conspired
to
abuse
the
Judgements
of
many
disinteressed
,
well-meaning
persons
,
who
were
otherwise
sufficiently
fortified
against
the
practises
of
notorious
Enemies
.
So
great
have
been
the
distresses
of
his
MAJESTY
,
since
he
hath
been
exil'd
from
His
Kingdomes
,
that
he
could
not
possibly
support
those
many
Retainers
to
his
Court
and
Cause
,
which
have
been
involv'd
in
the
common
Fate
of
his
Party
;
and
it
is
so
natural
for
all
men
to
overvalue
their
own
merits
,
that
they
think
themselves
very
much
injur'd
,
if
they
are
not
admitted
to
equal
shares
with
the
rest
of
their
fellow
Servants
,
though
far
more
eminent
for
their
services
past
,
and
better
fitted
for
present
employments
;
so
that
neither
his
MAJESTIES
insuperable
necessities
,
nor
the
disparity
of
their
deserts
could
hinder
these
presumptuous
persons
,
from
murmuring
at
his
Ministers
,
whilst
they
were
abroad
,
and
blasting
of
his
personal
vertues
when
they
returned
home
,
and
many
of
these
unworthy
men
,
having
been
honour'd
either
with
some
Domestick
relation
to
his
MAJESTY
,
or
at
least
,
with
free
accesse
to
his
Court
,
had
such
pretences
to
be
credited
in
all
their
reports
,
that
whilst
the
KING
was
not
known
to
the
People
,
who
are
ever
inclin'd
to
believe
the
worst
,
they
easily
perverted
the
candour
of
their
opinions
,
either
by
wounding
the
Judgement
of
his
MAJESTY
in
the
choice
of
his
Ministers
,
or
profaning
his
Character
by
most
impudent
slanders
,
especially
,
during
the
Tyranny
of
the
late
Protector
,
and
the
vile
Instruments
of
his
ambition
,
who
having
murthered
the
Father
,
and
seized
the
Inheritance
of
the
Son
,
knew
that
there
were
no
better
means
to
preserve
their
possessions
,
then
by
recriminating
the
Person
of
the
Lawfull
Pretender
;
and
therefore
they
were
so
prodigall
of
their
rewards
to
these
To
lye
for
their
Interest
.
So
that
at
my
return
into
England
,
after
Eleven
years
absence
,
truely
I
was
astonished
to
finde
that
this
Poyson
was
not
more
diffused
,
considering
the
activity
of
the
Deceivers
,
and
the
slavish
remissness
of
those
who
should
have
generously
opposed
them
.
But
it
hath
pleased
Almighty
God
marvelously
to
preserve
his
Majesties
good
Name
,
against
the
malice
of
those
wicked
men
,
who
went
about
to
slander
the
foot-steps
of
his
Anointed
.
And
now
finding
a
dawning
of
Liberty
to
assert
the
Truth
,
I
am
bold
to
expose
his
Picture
to
the
publick
view
,
whose
Person
will
hereafter
(
when
his
Luster
shall
break
through
the
Clouds
of
his
misfortunes
)
prove
the
Delight
of
our
Eyes
.
Though
Plato
hath
made
the
Soul
to
be
the
definition
of
man
,
allowing
the
Body
to
be
only
the
Carriage
of
the
Spirit
,
yet
since
we
receive
our
Information
of
Corporeal
Subjects
,
as
well
from
our
Sense
as
our
understanding
,
I
think
it
very
proper
to
describe
his
Majesties
Person
as
well
as
his
Qualities
.
He
is
somewhat
Taller
then
the
middle
stature
of
English
men
;
so
exactly
form'd
,
that
the
most
curious
Eye
cannot
find
one
Error
in
his
shape
.
His
Face
is
rather
Grave
then
Severe
,
which
is
very
much
softned
whensoever
he
speaks
:
His
Complexion
is
somewhat
dark
,
but
much
enlightened
by
his
Eyes
,
which
are
Quick
and
Sparkling
.
Until
he
was
near
twenty
years
of
Age
,
the
figure
of
his
Face
was
very
Lovely
;
but
he
is
since
grown
Leaner
,
and
now
the
Majesty
of
his
Counnenance
supplies
the
Lines
of
Beauty
.
His
Hair
,
which
he
hath
in
great
plenty
,
is
of
a
shining
black
,
not
frizled
,
but
so
Naturally
Curling
into
great
Rings
,
that
it
is
a
very
comely
Ornament
.
His
Motions
are
so
easie
and
gracefull
,
that
they
do
very
much
recommend
his
person
when
he
either
Walks
,
Dances
,
playes
at
Pal
Maille
,
at
Tennis
,
or
rides
the
great
Horse
,
which
are
his
usual
Exercises
,
In
summe
,
his
Meene
does
denote
his
Quality
;
and
wheresoever
he
appears
,
he
easily
obtains
the
respect
and
affections
of
all
that
approach
him
;
To
the
gracefulnesse
of
his
deportment
,
may
be
joyn'd
his
easinesse
of
accesse
,
his
Patience
in
Attention
,
and
the
Gentleness
both
in
the
tone
and
style
of
his
speech
;
so
that
those
,
whom
either
the
veneration
for
his
dignity
,
or
the
Majesty
of
his
presence
have
put
into
an
awful
respect
,
are
re-assur'd
assoon
as
he
enters
into
conversation
;
and
this
I
have
often
heard
observ'd
by
many
persons
of
quality
of
several
Nations
,
especially
by
the
French
,
who
are
naturally
more
serene
and
jovial
,
then
the
people
of
these
Northern
Countreys
,
who
at
first
approach'd
him
with
some
constraint
,
until
his
MAJESTY
was
better
known
to
them
;
but
to
deal
ingenuosly
,
these
advantages
were
not
born
with
him
,
for
he
was
too
reserv'd
in
his
youth
,
but
he
owes
these
(
with
many
other
excellencies
)
to
his
misfortunes
,
which
forcing
him
to
communicate
himself
to
all
sorts
of
people
of
the
several
Nations
where
he
hath
sojourn'd
,
have
cultivated
his
manners
,
and
render'd
his
perfections
habitual
.
Amongst
his
acquainted
endowments
these
are
the
most
eminent
,
He
understands
Spanish
,
and
Italian
;
speaks
and
writes
French
correctly
;
He
is
well
vers'd
in
ancient
and
modern
History
,
hath
read
divers
of
the
choicest
Pieces
of
the
Politick
,
hath
studied
some
useful
parts
of
the
Mathematicks
,
as
Fortification
,
and
the
knowledge
of
the
Globe
;
but
his
chief
delight
is
in
Navigation
,
to
which
his
Genius
doth
so
incline
him
,
that
by
his
frequent
conversation
with
Mariners
,
and
his
own
observation
,
whilest
he
rid
six
weeks
in
the
Downes
,
and
in
his
passage
into
Scotland
,
he
hath
arrived
to
so
much
knowledge
in
this
Science
,
that
I
have
heard
many
expert
Seamen
(
whose
discourses
are
not
steer'd
by
the
compasse
of
the
Court
)
speak
of
it
with
delight
and
wonder
;
in
general
,
He
is
a
true
friend
to
Literature
,
and
to
Learned
Men.
But
I
conceive
my self
obliged
to
be
more
particular
in
my
discourse
upon
his
Natural
qualities
,
because
they
import
the
well
or
ill-being
of
all
those
who
are
under
his
Dominion
;
for
though
his
outward
Accomplishments
may
sufficiently
recommend
him
to
disinteressed
strangers
,
yet
they
are
only
his
genuino
Vertues
,
which
can
render
him
agreeable
to
his
own
Subjects
;
amongst
which
I
will
assigne
the
first
place
to
his
Understanding
,
since
without
this
,
the
rest
of
his
Vertues
will
have
little
signification
towards
the
happinesse
of
his
People
;
for
if
he
wanted
that
,
it
were
more
to
the
purpose
to
describe
his
Ministers
then
his
MAJESTY
;
and
't
is
they
would
have
the
dominion
over
the
People
,
whilest
he
represented
only
the
sign
of
a
King
:
But
I
dare
assure
the
Nation
that
this
will
not
be
our
case
,
for
his
MAJESTY
hath
not
only
a
solid
Judgement
,
which
(
if
the
method
of
this
discourse
would
permit
)
I
could
evince
by
many
pregnant
instances
,
as
well
as
by
the
universall
concession
of
all
the
judicious
men
that
know
him
:
but
he
is
so
well
,
yet
so
modestly
periwaded
of
it
,
that
he
dares
trust
himself
,
and
is
not
capable
of
being
carryed
about
with
every
Wind
of
Counsel
;
so
that
it
will
prove
to
be
as
truly
said
of
his
MAJESTY
,
as
of
his
Grand-father
,
Henry
the
fourth
,
He
that
would
corrupt
his
Councill
,
must
first
begin
with
the
King
:
And
when
his
Subjects
shall
consider
the
advantages
of
his
Education
,
the
different
Nations
and
Factions
that
he
hath
had
to
deal
with
,
the
direct
opposition
of
his
Enemies
,
and
the
treachery
of
his
seeming
Friends
,
the
necessity
of
his
treating
with
several
Parties
in
Person
,
(
because
they
would
not
trust
those
who
were
about
him
)
the
Variety
and
Force
of
his
Experience
,
from
the
distinct
knowledge
of
the
Natures
of
the
People
of
several
Countreys
,
of
their
chief
Ministers
of
State
,
with
the
Intrigues
of
Government
,
both
in
their
Churches
and
Common-wealths
,
which
other
Princes
have
not
had
the
opportunity
,
or
mis-fortune
to
discover
,
and
all
these
Lessons
derived
from
their
natural
Springs
,
and
learn'd
in
that
excellent
School
of
Adversity
,
which
opens
the
Understanding
,
and
confirms
the
Judgement
;
when
these
particulars
are
well
considered
,
I
believe
,
I
shall
not
be
put
upon
my
Oath
to
prove
this
Article
.
Though
the
Sagacity
of
his
Spirit
may
be
of
great
advantage
to
himself
or
Friends
,
yet
it
will
have
no
comfortable
influence
upon
his
Subjects
in
general
,
unlesse
it
be
also
accompanied
with
Justice
,
and
therefore
this
is
the
vertue
which
is
next
to
be
considered
.
If
Justice
be
well
defin'd
by
the
Moralists
to
be
,
The
constant
Will
of
giving
to
every
man
his
due
;
then
may
I
safely
pronounce
his
Majesty
to
be
a
Just
person
.
And
though
I
have
met
with
some
reports
which
seem
to
impugne
this
Assertion
,
yet
upon
due
examination
of
them
,
I
am
the
more
confirmed
in
this
Character
:
For
though
the
defection
of
some
of
the
Royal
Party
hath
given
his
Majesty
general
grounds
of
suspition
,
yet
there
is
no
man
more
averse
then
himself
to
entertain
an
ill
opinion
of
any
person
,
of
whose
honesty
he
hath
had
experience
.
But
it
hath
been
his
fortune
(
as
what
Prince
or
private
person
can
avoid
it
)
to
have
had
some
absent
persons
of
Merit
and
Integrity
misrepresented
to
him
by
such
subtile
Arts
,
as
humane
wit
could
not
at
the
present
find
out
the
falshood
.
Some
of
these
innocent
sufferers
,
either
from
the
confidence
of
their
own
Sincerity
,
or
possibly
,
from
their
indifferency
for
his
Majesties
good
Opinion
(
he
not
being
in
a
condition
either
to
reward
or
punish
)
have
neglected
their
defence
,
and
lain
for
some
time
under
his
displeasure
;
but
as
soon
as
he
once
discovered
the
abuse
(
though
without
their
applications
)
he
hath
not
only
made
them
very
Honourable
reparations
,
but
marked
the
Informers
with
a
publick
Character
of
Infamy
:
And
of
this
particular
I
have
so
distinct
a
knowledge
,
that
I
do
as
confidently
believe
he
is
Just
,
as
that
he
is
a
Man
.
These
generous
Qualities
are
actuated
by
the
Magnanimity
of
his
mind
,
expressed
in
his
Fortitude
and
Courage
,
which
I
may
best
compare
to
one
another
;
for
his
Majesty
hath
shewed
as
great
Courage
in
his
attempts
,
to
recover
his
just
rights
,
as
Fortitude
in
his
submission
to
Providence
,
in
the
decision
of
the
Battel
against
him
;
and
yet
there
have
been
some
Infectious
breaths
,
who
have
endeavoured
to
blast
his
just
Reputation
;
but
he
hath
so
singnaliz'd
his
Courage
wheresoever
he
appear'd
,
that
even
his
inveterate
Enemy
Cromwel
himself
,
could
not
refuse
him
his
just
praises
,
though
it
was
not
his
custome
to
give
his
Enemies
their
due
honour
,
or
to
tell
a
truth
,
that
might
redound
to
his
prejudice
:
But
as
this
Character
is
not
doubted
by
his
Frieds
abroad
,
so
I
wish
that
it
may
never
be
known
by
experience
to
his
enemies
at
home
.
But
that
they
may
not
be
alarm'd
by
this
last
Period
;
I
do
assure
them
,
that
Clemency
is
as
natural
to
his
Majesty
,
as
Courage
:
which
is
a
Proposition
that
proves
it self
;
for
there
is
no
man
truly
valiant
,
that
can
be
cruel
;
and
it
were
to
degrade
himself
,
not
to
pardon
Injuries
;
for
in
taking
revenge
,
a
man
is
but
even
with
his
Enemy
:
but
in
passing
it
over
,
he
is
become
his
Superiour
.
These
are
general
notions
which
I
must
apply
to
their
particulars
whom
it
may
concern
:
His
Majesties
genuine
Clemency
is
confirm'd
by
his
veneration
for
his
Fathers
memory
,
who
left
him
his
commands
to
pardon
his
Enemies
(
even
those
Enemies
,
who
mingled
their
hands
in
his
innocent
blood
)
as
his
last
Legacy
;
and
I
do
know
,
that
he
is
convinced
,
that
it
is
his
interest
to
forgive
those
that
have
oppos'd
him
,
if
they
produce
any
seasonable
Testimonies
of
their
return
and
good
intentions
towards
him
;
knowing
that
the
despairs
of
his
Enemies
may
produce
cruel
effects
to
his
Friends
:
and
he
desires
to
make
his
accesse
to
his
Throne
as
innocent
,
and
as
certain
as
he
can
;
and
therefore
as
the
common
Father
of
his
People
,
he
endeavours
that
we
should
reconcile
and
embrace
like
Brethren
;
and
concludes
,
That
the
best
means
to
restore
the
crazie
Body
of
the
Kingdom
to
its
former
health
and
vigour
,
is
not
to
cure
one
part
,
by
afflicting
of
the
other
;
but
to
heal
those
wounds
which
are
already
festred
by
their
proper
lenitives
,
and
to
remove
(
as
much
as
lies
in
his
power
)
all
the
causes
of
future
Animosities
;
and
this
(
to
the
best
of
my
remembrance
)
is
the
substance
of
a
discourse
,
which
I
have
lately
heard
from
his
Majesties
own
Mouth
upon
this
Subject
.
But
his
Majesties
natural
Clemency
may
possibly
want
the
desirable
Effects
towards
penitent
Offenders
,
if
he
be
not
possest
of
a
Religious
fidelity
of
performing
his
Promise
,
and
a
Constancy
of
Resolution
:
If
at
least
the
ill
advised
passion
of
the
parties
that
have
sufferd
should
ever
incline
them
to
importune
him
for
their
revenge
,
under
the
Stile
of
Justice
:
To
this
I
reply
,
That
Perfidiousnesse
and
Irresolution
are
so
directly
opposite
to
those
Qualities
which
I
have
already
enumerated
in
his
Majesties
Character
,
that
they
are
altogether
inconsistent
;
and
if
he
should
have
the
least
inclination
to
Hypocrisie
,
that
which
I
have
hitherto
said
of
him
cannot
be
true
;
but
he
knows
very
well
that
the
reputation
of
Faithfulnesse
is
one
of
the
chiefest
Pillars
of
Regall
Power
;
and
that
even
his
Friends
may
reasonably
suspect
the
performance
of
his
promises
to
them
,
if
he
breaks
his
Faith
to
his
Enemies
.
But
to
be
more
particular
,
I
have
often
heard
his
Majesty
declaime
against
the
perfidious
practices
,
which
he
had
observed
in
the
Negotiations
of
some
Publick
Ministers
abroad
;
and
Men
do
not
use
to
declare
an
open
War
against
those
Vices
,
to
which
themselves
are
obnoxious
;
and
I
could
name
some
Persons
,
whom
he
is
pleased
to
honour
with
a
particular
esteem
,
that
have
no
other
conspicuous
Virtue
besides
their
impregnable
Honesty
;
for
there
is
nothing
in
Nature
more
productive
of
friendship
,
then
some
resemblance
in
manners
:
But
the
narrownesse
of
his
Fortune
not
suffering
him
to
supply
some
empty
men
,
as
profusely
,
as
they
had
promis'd
themselves
;
they
have
branded
his
Majesty
with
Ingratitude
,
and
Unfaithfulnesse
,
Sins
which
he
abhors
both
from
his
Nature
and
Judgement
.
A
man
that
is
only
Innocent
,
and
not
actively
Vertuous
,
is
so
near
to
imperfection
and
weaknesse
,
that
it
is
heard
to
distinguish
their
confines
;
and
if
it
be
granted
that
his
Majesty
does
possesse
these
Illustrious
Qualities
,
yet
if
he
wants
the
Nature
to
produce
them
by
practice
,
they
may
serve
his
Flatterers
for
Panegyricks
,
but
they
will
be
of
little
benefit
to
his
People
;
therefore
it
is
necessary
to
evince
his
Industry
,
to
confirm
the
Charracter
of
an
accomplish'd
Prince
.
There
was
for
a
long
time
so
dead
a
Calm
in
his
businesse
,
his
Enemies
being
so
strong
at
home
,
and
his
Friends
so
engaged
abroad
,
that
he
could
not
make
one
notorious
prudent
step
towards
his
recovery
,
which
his
cautelous
Enemies
have
represented
to
the
undiscerning
People
under
the
reproach
of
Lazinesse
.
But
the
best
of
it
is
,
he
hath
had
an
Army
of
his
own
Subjects
for
the
Witnesses
as
well
of
his
Industry
as
Courage
:
And
if
these
uningenuous
censurers
had
been
of
his
Train
the
last
Year
,
when
his
Majesty
rid
Post
above
two
hundred
Leagues
through
France
and
part
of
Spain
,
in
the
heat
of
Summer
,
I
perswade
my self
they
would
have
confessed
their
own
wearinesse
,
though
possibly
they
had
denied
his
Diligence
:
And
he
spares
his
Mind
as
ltitle
as
his
Body
,
for
besides
his
conversation
with
Books
,
he
consults
and
instructs
all
men
that
addresse
to
him
in
his
businesse
and
amongst
his
Correspondents
(
which
are
not
few
)
it
may
be
there
will
scare
be
found
One
to
whom
he
owes
a
Letter
.
Amongst
the
Moral
Vertues
there
are
some
which
have
not
such
glorious
Names
as
these
which
I
have
already
mentioned
;
but
I
think
they
are
very
considerable
,
because
they
are
more
diffus'd
into
the
ordinary
Actions
of
our
lives
.
In
this
number
I
reckon
Temperance
in
Speech
,
wherein
his
Majesty
so
excels
,
that
I
have
often
thought
of
it
with
admiration
;
for
though
I
have
sometimes
seen
him
very
justly
angry
,
yet
the
hardest
expression
that
I
have
ever
heard
him
use
to
a
Gentleman
,
was
once
,
and
but
once
,
when
he
told
one
of
his
domesticks
,
That
he
was
an
Insolent
fellow
:
And
though
the
Author
of
A
late
Letter
from
a
near
Attendant
on
his
Majesty
,
dated
from
Brussels
,
and
written
at
London
,
may
possibly
be
displeased
with
this
contradiction
,
yet
out
of
my
respect
to
Truth
,
I
am
bold
to
affirm
,
That
to
the
best
of
my
remembrance
,
I
never
heard
his
Majesty
swear
an
Oath
in
my
life
:
But
it
is
well
known
out
of
what
Quiver
these
poysoned
Arrows
come
,
which
being
shot
against
the
impenetrable
Buckler
of
his
Innocency
,
will
rebound
upon
the
faces
of
those
wicked
men
that
did
first
level
them
.
To
this
may
be
joyn'd
his
Sobriety
in
Diet
,
in
which
he
seldome
makes
the
least
excesse
,
though
he
stands
not
in
awe
of
his
Constitution
;
for
he
is
of
so
healthful
a
Temperament
,
that
I
have
not
known
him
above
thrice
sick
these
eighteen
Years
:
But
he
so
Naturally
hates
Debauchery
,
that
his
severity
to
this
vice
hath
cured
some
habitual
drunkards
,
who
have
chosen
rather
to
part
with
their
beloved
sins
,
then
with
his
Majesties
Favour
.
Though
I
can
neither
impugne
nor
defend
the
constant
austerity
of
his
Majesties
life
,
since
it
is
possible
that
in
the
heats
of
his
Youth
he
may
have
rendred
to
the
powerful
charms
of
Beauty
;
yet
I
am
certain
that
for
many
years
he
hath
been
so
Chast
and
Cautious
,
that
I
have
not
heard
the
least
whisper
of
any
indecent
Gallantry
:
And
yet
his
impudent
Enemies
have
not
only
reproached
him
with
habitual
Incontinence
,
and
farc'd
their
slanders
with
false
and
frivolous
tales
,
knowing
that
Fame
,
like
water
,
bears
up
light
things
and
swallows
the
heavy
;
but
they
have
suborned
their
Mercenary
Prophets
to
denounce
Gods
Judgements
against
him
,
for
these
supposed
Frailties
,
and
to
infer
with
as
ill
Morality
as
Logick
,
That
his
Majesty
is
unfit
for
Government
,
because
that
in
his
Youth
he
may
not
have
been
stronger
then
Samson
,
wiser
then
Solomon
,
or
more
holy
then
David
.
But
whosoever
will
impartially
consider
his
just
Character
,
and
compare
him
either
with
the
Ancient
and
modern
Princes
of
the
World
:
will
hardly
find
a
precedent
where
so
many
shining
qualities
are
assembled
,
or
so
little
shadowed
with
any
inclinations
to
vice
:
and
if
solid
Vertue
and
Abilities
for
Government
were
a
just
title
to
Dominion
,
the
Brutish
Ocean
would
not
be
the
confines
of
his
Empire
.
These
Excellent
Qualities
are
the
products
of
a
happy
Nature
,
or
a
generous
Education
,
but
as
the
soul
informs
the
body
,
so
it
is
Religion
which
animates
the
Character
of
Christian
Princes
,
and
crowns
their
moral
perfections
,
and
therefore
as
the
most
eminent
,
I
have
reserv'd
that
to
finish
this
Piece
.
For
his
interiour
Piety
,
I
leave
it
to
the
Searcher
of
thoughts
,
in
whose
hands
are
the
hearts
of
Kings
;
for
to
us
,
the
Tree
is
only
known
by
the
fruits
;
neither
will
I
extend
my self
upon
the
discourse
of
his
Humility
,
Meeknesse
,
Charity
,
and
other
divine
Graces
,
since
these
produce
the
same
effects
(
though
more
rais'd
,
because
they
are
deriv'd
from
a
higher
Cause
,
for
Christian
Religion
is
only
reason
sublim'd
)
which
I
have
already
treated
under
other
names
;
and
they
are
fitter
for
the
Pens
of
those
who
have
entrance
into
the
Sanctuary
,
then
for
a
secular
Person
;
therefore
I
shall
only
insist
upon
his
Majesties
firmnesse
to
his
Religion
,
as
the
most
conducing
to
our
purpose
.
And
in
this
particular
,
he
hath
given
such
signal
testimonies
to
the
world
,
that
I
wonder
at
the
folly
,
as
well
as
the
malice
of
his
Enemies
,
that
have
planted
their
Batteries
against
this
point
;
but
it
is
a
Maxime
deriv'd
from
the
Father
of
Lyes
,
To
calumniate
boldly
,
that
something
may
remain
,
and
the
people
are
so
susceptible
of
tales
,
that
it
is
hard
to
invent
a
Fable
which
is
above
their
Faith
.
His
Majesty
having
passed
ten
years
of
his
exile
in
the
territories
of
Catholick
Princes
,
in
France
,
Germany
and
Flanders
,
it
cannot
be
doubted
that
he
hath
been
frequently
importuned
to
change
his
Religion
,
either
by
those
,
who
out
of
a
firm
perswasion
of
the
verity
of
their
own
belief
,
have
thought
it
a
charity
to
make
him
a
Convert
;
or
those
who
from
the
presumption
of
their
great
abilities
in
Controversie
,
have
had
the
ambition
to
adde
so
illustrious
a
person
to
the
number
of
their
Proselytes
,
or
those
Politicians
,
who
(
despairing
of
his
re-establishment
,
unlesse
by
the
assistance
of
Catholick
Princes
)
have
urged
his
conversion
to
the
Roman
Faith
,
as
the
best
means
to
take
the
benevolence
of
his
Alleys
:
but
they
have
all
encountred
such
an
immovable
firmnesse
in
his
Majesty
to
the
Principles
of
his
Religion
,
that
they
have
retir'd
from
the
assault
with
no
other
effects
,
then
the
satisfaction
of
having
discharged
their
Consciences
,
by
their
officious
Counsels
.
Amongst
many
other
Champions
of
the
Roman
Church
;
His
Majesty
was
frequently
attacqued
(
whilst
he
remained
in
France
)
by
Monsieur
de
la
Melitiere
,
a
man
of
an
excellent
spirit
,
who
had
been
formerly
a
Calvinist
,
and
by
Monsieur
Salmonet
originally
a
Scots-man
,
and
favourite
to
the
Cardinal
de
Retz
,
who
have
since
printed
and
published
the
Arguments
of
their
conference
;
and
there
is
hardly
any
Roman
Catholick
of
note
for
piety
or
Learning
in
any
part
of
the
World
,
where
his
Majesty
hath
been
,
that
hath
not
joyned
his
Forces
to
combate
him
for
his
Religion
.
And
shall
he
that
hath
passed
so
successefully
through
a
ten
years
War
in
the
defence
of
his
Faith
,
be
rob'd
of
his
Triumph
,
and
of
his
Highest
Title
,
by
the
tongue
or
pen
of
a
perjur'd
Villain
?
We
must
then
conclude
,
that
Justice
is
fled
to
Heaven
,
and
hath
left
us
nothing
here
but
her
Ballance
,
in
which
these
wretched
men
do
weigh
their
worldly
Interests
,
against
all
the
moral
and
divine
Vertues
;
but
Truth
will
be
justified
of
her
Children
,
and
his
Majesties
perseverance
in
his
Religion
will
be
dear
to
the
truely
pious
People
of
this
Nation
,
when
the
faces
of
these
slanders
shall
grow
black
with
confusion
.
But
his
Majesties
Fervour
for
his
own
way
of
Worship
does
not
invade
his
Charity
,
to
dissenting
Christians
:
He
is
convinced
by
his
Experience
,
as
well
as
by
his
Reason
,
That
Consciences
are
not
to
be
forc'd
,
and
that
men
may
reasonably
suspect
the
truth
of
that
Religion
,
which
useth
the
Sword
for
her
Argument
;
since
it
is
as
much
against
Reason
as
Charity
,
to
persecute
those
who
may
be
in
the
right
,
or
if
not
,
shall
by
this
means
be
kept
longer
in
the
wrong
;
And
therefore
those
tender
Consciences
,
who
worship
God
in
the
sincerity
of
their
spirits
,
and
do
not
dissent
from
their
Brethren
,
to
advance
their
humrne
Interests
,
ought
to
joyn
in
their
prayers
to
Almighty
God
,
with
the
rest
of
the
people
;
to
place
this
Religious
,
Virtuous
King
in
peace
,
upon
the
Throne
of
his
Ancestors
.
And
if
the
Illustrious
Birth
of
his
Sacred
MAJESTY
,
His
Just
Tittle
to
Dominion
over
us
;
warranted
by
the
Laws
of
these
Kingdoms
,
and
marvelously
asserted
by
the
Providence
of
God
;
and
who
(
besides
his
Acquir'd
Perfections
)
is
possest
of
Wisdom
,
Justice
,
Fortitude
,
Courage
,
Clemency
,
Faithfulnesse
,
Industry
,
Temperance
,
and
Steddinesse
in
his
Religion
;
If
these
Eminent
Qualities
may
derive
happinesse
to
his
People
,
Then
it
is
in
our
power
to
be
happy
,
and
He
is
bold
to
pronounce
this
to
his
Fellow-Subjects
;
Who
is
so
far
from
betraying
his
Countrey
for
his
Prince
,
that
he
would
not
betray
a
private
person
,
either
for
his
Prince
or
Countrey
.
FINIS
.