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Their ver∣tue or pru∣dence was shewed
In the art of Musicke: Bledgabrede both studied and practised musicke: hee was very famous: and I thinke, in respect of his charge and gouernment, ve∣ry wonderfull. A monasticall liuer, and much more an oeconomicall hath no partes of time for such young childish studies, if he looke wel about him: and how can a king that is the keeper of all other men haue any time for such vaine insignificant voices? Yet the circular wisdome of this king had such a ca∣pacitie by some myraculous infusion from heauen, that hee was fit both for the grauest and the lightest studies, either to learne them by contemplation, or to vse and teach them by action. He saw by his instru∣mentes, how to tune and string his kingdome: he could preuent and pacifie tumultes with his musick: he might perhaps allay the waues of the Sea, and breake the thunders aloft with his diuine melodie: he coulde keepe himselfe from wearinesse by his mu∣sicke: he could mitigate the violence of diseases with his sweete voices: musicke was his prosody, his pro∣nunciation, his disposition, his instrument of instru∣ment, and the life of his life.