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Of the Magnanimitie of minde which Kings ought to haue.
BY this high Tower, and nose of the Spouse, some vnderstand the Pope; Quia in facie Ecclesiae eminet: Because he is an eminent man in the face of the Church. But Rabbi Kymki, and Philo Iudaeus, will haue it, by the selfe same reason, to bee vnderstood of a King; Adding withall, that the nose doth betoken Maiestie, Grauitie, Longanimitie, and excel∣lencie of minde, wherein a King ought to exceede all o∣ther. And therefore the Persians would neuer choose him to be their King, who had not a hooke nose like the Eagle, well shap't, and proportioned, which is the en∣signe of a magnanimous minde. And hence it is, that they say of the God of the Hebrewes, that hee hath great and large nostrils. So sounds that word of the Psalmist; Lon∣ganimis, & multum misericors: id est, longus naribus. The Lord is mercifull and gracious, slow to anger, and plentious in mercie: that is; Of wide nostrills, full of sufferance and patience; for the smoake of fury and choler doth not so soone runne vp the chimney, as in those which haue straight and narrow nostrils, who are soone hot, and sodainely incensed to anger. And the selfe same Philo saith, that in the Leuiticall Law, they were not admitted to the Preisthood, who had either a little, crooked, or dispropor∣tioned nose, as being lesse fit for that Ministery. The one, are hot and cholerick; the other, ill-inclined. Those againe, which haue too great a nose, are naturally cruell, and proude,