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SIR,
AS God hath most aboundantly bles∣sed your Highnes, in honouring you on both sides with twoa wor∣thy Parents, whose Memorie (as now) will be euer deseruedly honoured: so it is iustly expec∣ted, that their Royal Vertues (al∣readieb happily begun) shall be renewed in your Highnesse (as in a more liuely monument,
then of Marble or Brasse) and (if it were possible) in well doing andd pietie you shall not onely paralell, but sur∣passe them.
Your Kingly and Learned Father Dauid hath so broken the Ice to your Highnesse, his beloued young Salomon, (by laying such foundations for the gouernement of your selfe and your Israel after him) that whatsoeuer can be added, is but inferre lumen mortale splen∣dente sole.
By which only reason, I haue presumed (with Phaeton, trusting to my borrow'd wings) to present vnto your Highnes this deformed Portraiture, drawn from the Paterne (of thee Apelles like Picture) of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that
by the view of such a dismem∣bred Monster, your Highnesse may prosecute the imitation of that Worke, that no Man (ex∣cept vnmatchablef Pyrgote∣lis, that hath ingrauen it vpon the Marbleg of inobliterable Vertue) is able to equalize.
If it will please your Highnes to Grace these my idle Labours withh a smiling countenance: (being all I desire) I shall thinke my Idlenesse fortunate, and en∣deuour hereafter to finde out some other subiect, more Wor∣thie your Princely entertaine∣ment. Thus Sir (renewing the oath of my loyall seruice to your Highnesse by my pen, that formerly I did solemnely sweare by the holding vp of my hand in a steele Gantlet, now asha∣med
to bee seene for rust) I doe humbly take my leaue, and shall euer remaine,
Your Highnesse dutifull and humble ser∣uant, PATRIK SCOT.
Dos est Ma∣gna Parentum Virtus, Horat. Carm. l. 3. Ode. 24.
Preciosa Principum in∣genia & Vir∣tus quae ante annos viget. Cassiador.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Euripid. Meleagr.
Quod prae∣stibilius aut pulchrius mu∣nus Deorum quàm Sanctus & Dijs simili∣mus Princeps. Plin. in Paneg. Traian.
Vinci eru∣bescens A∣pelles tertio colore line∣as secuit nul∣lum relin∣quens ampli∣us subtilitati locum, Plinius l. 35. cap. 10.
Pyrgotelis ita omnium sculptorum peritissimus, vt Alexander e∣dixit ne quis eum quam il∣le sculperer, Plin. l. 7. cap. 37. Appoli. lib. 1. Florid. Cicero Epist. 12. ad Fa∣mil. Ʋal. Max. c. 11. l. 8. & Ho∣rat. Epist. 1. l. 6.
Nihil est accepta Virtu∣te quod (mor∣tali animo aut manu) immor∣tale queri po∣test, Val. Max.
Laetissima Principis fa∣cies & amabi∣lis vultus in omnium sub∣ditorum ore oculis & ani∣mo sedet, Plin. in Paneg. Traian.