ADVICE TO SIR GEORGE VILLIERS. 



for you to do : so may you live long beloved 

 of both. 



[If you find in these or any other your observa 

 tions, which doubtless are much better than these 

 loose collections, any thing which you would have 

 either the father or the son to take to heart, an admo 

 nition from a dead author, or a caveat from an im 

 partial pen, whose aim neither was nor can be taken 

 to be at any particular by design, will prevail more 

 and take better impression than a downright advice ; 

 which perhaps may be mistaken as if it were spoken 

 magisterially. 



Thus may you live long an happy instrument for 

 your king and country ; you shall not be a meteor 

 or a blazing star, but &quot; stella fixa :&quot; happy here and 

 more happy hereafter, &quot; Deus manu sua te ducat:&quot;] 

 which is the hearty prayer of 



Your most obliged and devoted Servant. 



