Epistle Dedicatory.
intirely into those publick Affairs, which at this time seem to demand you. It is that happy Turn which your Lordship has to business, that right understanding of your Country's Interest, and that constant Zeal to pursue it, that just Thinking, that strong and persuasive Elocution, that firm and generous Resolution, which upon all occasions you have shewn in Parliaments; and to add, that which is the crowning good quality, your Lordship's continual adherence and unshaken Loyalty to His present Majesty, which make you at this time so necessary to the Publick. I must confess, (tho' there is no part in your Lordship's Character, but what the World should be fond of) I cannot help distinguishing the last instance very particularly: It is doing (methinks) such a Justice to Goodness, to Greatness, and to Right Reason, that Posterity will believe there could be no Man of good Sense, but what must have agreed with your Lordship in it. When the next Age shall read the History of this, What Excuse can they make for those who did not admire a Prince whose Life has been a Series of good Offices done to Mankind? When they shall reckon up his Labours from the Battle of Seneff, to some Glorious Action, which shall be his Last, (and which I therefore hope is very far remov'd from the present Time?) Will they ever believe that he could have been too well lov'd, or too faithfully serv'd and defended?The
