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A worthie Prince. 4.

A worthie Prince hee is th'Extreame, the Scope,
The Altitude, and Kingdomes highest Hope.
The richest Iewell, reckned of Renowne
That Kings can haue inchac'd in their Crowne:
And is the fairest Flowre, for to bee seene,
That growes into the Garden of the Queene.
Hee is the aym'd-at-Obiect of the Eye
Of all the Kingdome, in his Infancie:
Hee is the Marrow of the Mothers care,
A loving Syres solisitude, much maire.
Hee is the Theame the Counsell oft thinks on,
In the succession of the Royall Throne.
Hee is the Loue, Delight, and Ioy of all,
This great Incorporation Generall.
Hee's Natures Master-piece, and Loue no lesse,
Of Wisdome, in the lyfe of Worthinesse.
Hee is a Massie-precious Ivor Boxe,
Full of Rubies, of the richest Rockes:
Attending Tyme, to emptie and vnlose,
Such deare and daintie Wares as't doth inclose.
These are the Royall deeds, that hee shall doe,
In his succeeding lyfe, and Raigne into.
Hee prickes in's Wisdome, Expectations Sprite,
And layes Ambitions Heart before his Feere,
And by his Vertue wins, and Valour both,
The Noblers Loue, and in their Bosome go'th,
His bountie strongly binds, and not Constraint,
The service of the most sufficient.
Hee is the Chrystall Glasse, where Nature may
The Quintescence of all her Arte display.
He th'Index is, and Reasons Booke indeede,
Wherein true Vertue may her honour reade.
Hee is the Morning-Starre, that blazeth bright,
And doeth from the Sunne receiue its light.
Hee is the first wisht Fruite that doth aryse
From the blest Tree, of th'earthly Paradise.
Hee is the Subject of the most Import,
And Studie of the best, and wisest sort.
Vnto the Learned, and the sharpest wit,
Hee is a Matter admirable to it.
Last, hee is Wisdomes Sonne, and Honours hight;
Vertues Choyse, and Valours working Spright.