Ixxvi TO THE KING 



more Worthy Tour Majesty, or more becoming our Imitation ? 

 than whilst Ton are thus solicitous for the Publick Good, we 

 pursue Your Majesty'.* Great Example ; and by cultivating our 

 decaying Woods, contribute to Tour Power, as to Tour greatest 

 Wealth and Safety; since whilst Tour Majesty is furnish 'd to 

 send forth those Argo's and Trojan Horses, * about this Happy 

 Island, we are to fear nothing from without it ; and whilst we 

 remain Obedient to Tour just Commands, nothing from within it. 



'Tis now some Years past that Tour Majesty was pleased to 

 declare Tour Favourable Acceptance of a Treatise of Architecture 

 which I then presented to You, with many Gracious Expressions, 

 and that it was a most useful Piece. Sir, that Encouragement 

 (together with the Success of the Book // self, and of the former 

 Editions of this) has animated me still to continue my Oblation 

 to Tour Majesty of these Improvements : Nor was it certainly 

 without some Provident Conduct, that we have been thus soli- 

 citous to begin, as it were, with Materials for Building, and 

 Directions to Builders; if due Reflection be made on that De- 

 plorable Calamity, the Conflagration of Tour Imperial City ; 

 which nevertheless, by the Blessing of God, and Tour Majesty 's 

 Gracious Influence, we have seen Rise again, a New, and much 

 more Glorious PHOENIX. 



This TR IB U TE I now once more lay at the Feet of our 

 ROTAL FOUNDER. 



May Tour Majesty be pleas d to be Invoked by that no Inglo- 

 rious TITLE, in the prof oundest Submission of 



Gracious Sir, 



Your Majesty's 



Ever Loyal, most Obedient and 

 Sayes-Court, Faithful Subject and Servant, 



5 Decemb. 



i6 7 s. J . EVELYN. 



1 Argon, lib. I. That Famous Ship built of the Dodonacan Oak. 



