



TO 



THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND INDOMITABLE. 



PRINCE 



CHARLES 



KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, AND IRELAND 

 DEFENDER OF THE FAITH 



MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE ! 



The heart of animals is the foundation of their 

 life, the sovereign of everything within them, the 

 sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth 

 depends, from which all power proceeds. The King, 

 in like manner, is the foundation of his kingdom, 

 the sun of the world around him, the heart of the 

 republic, the fountain whence all power, all grace 

 doth flow. What I have here written of the motions 

 of the heart I am the more emboldened to present 

 to your Majesty, according to the custom of the 

 present age, because almost all things human are 

 done after human examples, and many things in a 

 King are after the pattern of the heart. The know- 

 ledge of his heart, therefore, will not be useless to a 

 Prince, as embracing a kind of Divine example of 

 his functions, and it has still been usual with men 



3 



