But no sooner did that blessed Martyr expire, then our redivive Phoenix appear’d; rising from those Sacred Ashes Testator and Heir; Father and yet Son; Another, and yet the same; introsuming as it were his Spirit, as he breath’d it out, when singing his own Epicedium and Genethliack together, he seem’d prodigal of his own life to have it redouble’d in your felicity:  Thus, Rex nunquam moritur.  O admirable conduct of the Divine Providence, to immortalize the image of a just Monarch:  Ipsa quidem, sed non eadem, quia & ipsa, nec ipsa est. Since that may as truly be apply’d to your Majesty, which was once to the wisest of Kings:  Mortuus est Pater ejus, & quasi non mortuus, similem enim reliquit sibi post se.

But with how much prudence, is serenity attributed amongst the titles of Princes, and the beams of the sun to irradiate their Crowns; That the Scepter bears a Flower; since as that glorious planet produces, so does it also wither them; and there is nothing lasting, save their vertues, which are indeed their essential parts, and only immortal; For even yet did the clouds intercept our day with the continuance of so dismall a storm, as it obnubilated all those hopes of ours.  It is an infinite adventure, if in a Princes Family [HW:  Firmament] (once overcast) it ever grow fair weather again, but by a singular and extraordinary providence.  I mention this to increase the wonder, and reinforce your felicity.  Empires passe, Kingdomes are translated, and dominions cease:  The Cecropides of old, the Arsacides, the Theban, Corinthian, Syracusian, and sundry more lasted nor to the fourth Age without strange and prodigious tragedies; but why go we so far back, when a few Centuries present us with so many fresh Revolutions?  How many nests has the Roman Eagle changed? Bulgarian, Saracen, Latine; In the Comneni, Isaaci, Paleologi, &c. even till it dash’d it self in pieces against the Oetoman rock.  What mutations have been in the house of Arragon?  How many Riders has the Parthenopean horse unsaddl’d and flung?  How many Sicily?  What changes have been in Italy, What in France, and indeed through all Europe by Vandals, Saxons, Danes, Normans, by external invasion, internal Faction, Envy, Ambition, treachery and violence?  The Consulate degenerated into Oligarchy, which occasion’d the Aventine sedition; Democraty into Ochlocraty under the Tribunes and wicked Gracchi; and Monarchy it self, (the very best of Governments) into Tyranny.