State-worthies, or, The states-men and favourites of England since the reformation their prudence and policies, successes and miscarriages, advancements and falls, during the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles I.

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Title: State-worthies, or, The states-men and favourites of England since the reformation their prudence and policies, successes and miscarriages, advancements and falls, during the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles I.
Author: Lloyd, David, 1635-1692.
Publication: London :: Printed by Thomas Milbourne for Samuel Speed ...,; 1670.
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Subject terms: Statesmen -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Favorites, Royal -- England -- Sources.; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Sources.; Great Britain -- Kings and rulers.; Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Early works to 1800.
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Observations on the Life of Sir William Picker∣ing.

HIs Extraction was not Noble, his estate but mean; yet was his person so comely, his carriage so elegant, his life so gravely re∣served and studious, and his Embassies in France and Germany so well managed, that in King Ed∣wards days he was by the Council pitched upon as the Oracle, whereby our Agents were to be guided abroad•• and in Queen Eli••abeths, designed by com∣mon vote for the Prince by whom we were to be governed at home. He received extraordinary fa∣vours, no doubt, so deserving he was: he was wish∣••d to more, he was so popular: and when his ser∣vice wa•• admitted to her majesties bosome, all fan∣cies but his own placed his person in her Bed. And I find him a prince in this, That retiring from those busie Buslings in the State, wherein he might be matched or out-done, he devoted his large soul to those more sublime and noble researches in his Study, wherein he sate monarch of hearts and let∣ters. Anxious posterity no doubt enquires what great Endowments could raise so private a man to such publick honour and expectation; and it must imagine him one redeemed by the politure of good Education, from his younger vanities and simplici∣ties, his Rustick ignorance, his Clownish con••idence his Bruitish dulness, his Country solitude, his earth∣ly ploddings, his Beggerly indigencies, or covetous necessities; racked and refined from the Lees of

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sensual and inordinate lust, from swelling and surly pride, from base and mean designes, from immo∣derate affections, violent passions, unreasonable im∣pulses, and depraved asp••cts; of a strong and hand∣some body, a large and publ••ck soul, of a gentle and patient access, of benign and just re••entments, a grand awful presence. This is he that is born to teach the world, That * 1.1 Vertue and Wariness make•• Kings as well as Gods.

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Causa Virtus •• Deo, vel ipse De∣us.

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