THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND INDOMITABLE PRINCE, 



CHARLES, 



KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, A> 

 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 micro- 

 cosm, 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 knowledge 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 



