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_the best instance to make a man of Plato’s opinion, — 
and faculties, which the Philosop al; 
the largeness of your capacity, the faithfulness of your — 
tration of your judgement, and the facility and order of 3 
your elocution: and I have often thought, that of all the _ 
persons living that I have known, your Majesty were 
that all knowledge is but remembrance, and that the 
mind of man by nature knoweth all things, and hath © 
but her own native and original notions (which by the 
strangeness and darkness of this tabernacle of the body — 
are sequestered) again revived and restored: such a light — 
of nature I have observed in your Majesty, and such a ? 
readiness to take flame and blaze from the least occasion — 
presented, or the least spark of another’s knowledge de- — 
livered. And as the Scripture saith of the wisest king, © 
That his heart was as the sands of the sea; which though { 
it be one of the largest bodies, yet it consisteth of the — 
smallest and finest portions; so hath God given your : 
Majesty a composition of understanding admirable, being 
able to compass and comprehend the greatest matters, 
and nevertheless to touch and apprehend the least; — 
whereas it should seem an impossibility in nature, for — 
the same instrument to make itself fit for great and — 
small works. And for your gift of speech, I call to mind 
what Cornelius Tacitus saith of Augustus Czesar: Ame 
profluens, ef que principem deceret, eloquentia fuit. For if 
we note it well, speech that is uttered with labour and — 
difficulty, or speech that savoureth of the affectation of ' 
art and precepts, or speech that is framed after the imita- 
tion of some pattern of eloquence, though never so ex- — 
cellent; all this hath somewhat servile, and holding of — 
‘the subject. But your Majesty’s manner of speech is _ 
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