them for his exercise, he had greate judgment in paintings,
graving, sculpture, and all liberal arts, and had
many curiosities of vallue in all kinds, he took greate
delight in perspective glasses, and for his other rarities
was not so much affected with the antiquity as the
merit of the worke—he took much pleasure
in emproovement of grounds, in planting groves and
walkes, and fruite-trees, in opening springs and making
fish-ponds; of country recreations he lov’d
none but hawking, and in that was very eager and much
delighted for the time he us’d it, but soone
left it off; he was wonderful neate, cleanly and gentile
in his habitt, and had a very good fancy in it, but
he left off very early the wearing of aniething that
was costly, yett in his plainest negligent habitt
appear’d very much a gentleman; he had more addresse
than force of body, yet the courage of his soule so
supplied his members that he never wanted strength
when he found occasion to employ it; his conversation
was very pleasant for he was naturally chearful, had
a ready witt and apprehension; he was eager in every
thing he did, earnest in dispute, but withall very
rationall, so that he was seldome overcome, every
thing that it was necessary for him to doe he did with
delight, free and unconstrein’d, he hated cerimonious
complement, but yett had a naturall civillity and
complaisance to all people, he was of a tender constitution,
but through the vivacity of his spiritt could undergo
labours, watchings and journeyes, as well as any of
stronger compositions; he was rheumatick, and had a
long sicknesse and distemper occasion’d thereby
two or three yeares after the warre ended, but elce
for the latter halfe of his life was healthy tho’
tender, in his youth and childhood he was sickly, much
troubled with weaknesse and tooth akes, but then his
spiritts carried him through them; he was very patient
under sicknesse or payne or any common accidints,
but yet upon occasions, though never without just ones,
he would be very angrie, and had even in that such
a grace as made him to be fear’d, yet he was
never outragious in passion; he had a very good facultie
in perswading, and would speake very well pertinently
and effectually without premeditation upon the greatest
occasions that could be offer’d, for indeed
his judgment was so nice, that he could never frame
any speech beforehand to please himselfe, but his
invention was so ready and wisdome so habituall in
all his speeches, that he never had reason to repent
himselfe of speaking at any time without ranking the
words beforehand, he was not talkative yett free of
discourse, of a very spare diett, not much given to
sleepe, an early riser when in health, he never was
at any time idle, and hated to see any one elce soe,
in all his naturall and ordinary inclinations and
composure, there was somthing extraordinary and tending
to vertue, beyond what I can describe, or can be gather’d
from a bare dead description; there was a life of
spiritt and power in him that is not to be found in
any copie drawne from him: to summe up therefore
all that can be sayd of his outward frame and disposition
wee must truly conclude, that it was a very handsome
and well furnisht lodging prepar’d for the reception
of that prince, who in the administration of all excellent
vertues reign’d there awhile, till he was called
back to the pallace of the universall emperor.