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to all people, he was of a tender 
constitution, but through the vivaci- 
ty of his spiritt could undergo Ia- 
bours, watchings and iourneyes, as 
well as any of stronger composi- 
tions ; he was rheumatick, and had 
a long sicknesse and distemper oc. 
casion’d thereby two or three yeares 
after the warre ended, but elce for 
the latter halfe of his life was heal- 
thy tho’ tender, in his youth, and 
ehildhood he was sickly, much 
troubled with weaknesse and tooth 
akes, but then his spiritts carried 
him through them; he was very 
patient under sicknesse or payne or 
any common accidints, but yet 
upon occasions, though never with- 
‘out iust ones, he would be very an- 
grie, and had even in that sucha 
grace as made him to be fear’d, yet 
he was never outragious in pas- 
sion ; he had a very good facultie 
in perswading, and would speake 
very well pertinently and effectual. 
ly without premeditation upon the 
greatest occasions that could be of- 
fer’d, for indeed his iudgment was 
so nice, that he could never frame 
any speech beforehand to please 
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himselfe, but his invention was so 
ready and wisedome ‘so habitual! in 
all his speeches, that he never had 
reason to repent himselfe of speak- 
ing at any time without ranking the 
words beforehand, he was not talk- 
ative yett free of discourse, ofa very 
spare diett, notmuchgiven to sleepe, 
an early riser when in health, he 
never was at any time idle, and hat- 
ed to see any one elce soe, in all his 
naturall and ordinary inclinations 
and eomposure, there was som- 
thing extraordinary and tending to 
vertue, beyond what I can describe, 
or can be gather’d froma bare dead 
description ; there was a life of 
spiritt and power in him that is not 
to be found in any copie drawne 
from him : to summe up therefore 
all that can be sayd of his outward 
frame and disposition wee must truly 
conclude, that it was a very hand- 
some and well furnisht lodging pre- 
par’d for the reception of that 
prince, who in the administration 
of all excellent vertues reign’d there 
awhile, till he was called back to 
the pallace of the universall em- 
peror.* ; 
* Ts not here Plato’s system pourtray’d in language worthy of that sublime and 
eloquent philosopher ? 
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