And let it be a new year, a new AEra, to all the future Generations, as it is the beginning of this, and of that immense, Platonic Revolution; for what could arrive more justly, more stupendious, were even the eight sphear it self now hurled about?  For no sooner came our CHARLES on shore, but every Man was in the Haven where he would be; the storm Universally ceas’d, and every one ran forth to see our Palladium, tanquam coelo delapsum:  Virgins, Children, Women, trembling old Men, venerating the very ship that wafted our Jason and his Heroes, ravish’d with the sight, yet hardly believing for astonishment; the greatness of the miracle, oppressing our sences, and endangering our very faith.

    Credetne hoc olim ventura posteritas?

I would prayse you Great Prince, but having begun; where shall I make an end? since there remains not a Topic through all that kind, but one might write Decads of it, without offending the truth, were it as secure of your modesty; since I am as well to consider what your ears can suffer, as what is owing to your Virtues:  On what heads shall I extend then my discourse? your Birth, Country, Form, Education, Manners, Studies, Friends, Honours and Fortune run through all partitions of the Demonstrative:  An Orator could have nothing more to wish for, nor your Majesty to render you more accomplish’d.

Shall I consider then your Majesty as you were a Son to that glorious Father before his Apotheosis?  As you were your self a Confessor after it; As you are now thus day in your Zenith and exaltation; and as we Augure you will by Gods blessing prove to your Subjects hereafter:  For even through all these does our prospect lead us; Nor may it be objected that what shall be spoken of your Majesty, can be applied to any other; since the Fortune and Events of the rest of Princes, have been so differing from yours; as seeming to have been conducted by Men alone, and second Causes; yours only by God, and as it were by Miracle.

I begin then with your early Piety to that Kingly Martyr whose Sacred dictates did institute your tender years, and whose sufferings were so much alleviated by your Majesties early proficiency in all that might presage a hopefull and glorious Successor:  For so did you run through all his Vicissitudes, during that implacable war, which sought nothing more then to defeat you of all opportunities of a Princely education, as fearing your future Virtues; because they knew the stock from whence you sprung, was not to be destroy’d by wounding the body, so long as such a Branch remained.

    Duris ut ilex tonsa bipennibus
    Nigrae feraci frondis in Algido,
      Per damna, per caedes, ab ipso
      Ducit opes, animumque ferro.

Whilst he Reign’d and Govern’d, you learn’d only to obey; Living your own Princely Impress; [SN:  ICH DIEN.] as knowing it would best instruct you one day how to Command, and which we now see accomplish’d:  These then are the effects, when Princes are the Sons of Nobles; since only such know best to support the weight, who use to bear betimes, and by degrees; not those who rashly pull it on their shoulders; because they take it with less violence, less ambition, less jealousie:  None so secure a Prince, as he that is so born.