428 ADVICE TO SIR GEORGE VILLIERS. 



held, that by the advice of the secretaries, or some 

 principal counsellors, there were always sent forth 

 into several parts beyond the seas some young men, 

 of whom good hopes were conceived of their toward- 

 liness, to be trained up, and made fit for such public 

 employments, and to learn the languages. This was 

 at the charge of the queen, which was not much ; for 

 they travelled but as private gentlemen : and as by 

 their industry their deserts did appear, so were they 

 farther employed or rewarded. This course I shall 

 recommend unto you, to breed up a nursery of such 

 public plants. 



V. FOR peace and war, and those things which 

 appertain to either ; I in my own disposition and 

 profession am wholly for peace, if please God to bless 

 this kingdom therewith, as for many years past he 

 hath done : and 



1 . I presume I shall not need to persuade you to 

 the advancing of it ; nor shall you need to persuade 

 the king your master therein, for that he hath hi 

 therto been another Solomon in this our Israel, and 

 the motto which he hath chosen, &quot; Beati pacifici,&quot; 

 shews his own judgment : but he must use the 

 means to preserve it, else such a jewel may be 

 lost. 



2. God is the God of peace ; it is one of his attri 

 butes, therefore by him alone we must pray, and 

 hope to continue it : there is the foundation. 



3. And the king must not neglect the just ways 

 for it ; justice is the best protector of it at home, 



