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The more cause have I to count my self happy, that am to answer of these matters before a King that is able to discern betwixt things that differ, and hath knowledge of all these questions.¹ before whom therefore I may speak boldly: because ⟨image 5⟩I am persuaded that none of these things are hid from him. For it is not of late days that your Majesty hath begun to take these things into your consideration: from a child have you been trained up to this warfare; yea before you were twenty years of age, the Lord had taught your hands to fight against the man of sin, and your fingers to make battle against his Babel. Whereof your Paraphrase upon the Revelation of S. John is a memorable monument left to all posterity: which I can never look upon, but those verses of the Poet run always in my mind: Caesaribus virtus contigit ante diem;² Jngenium coeleste suis velocius annis Surgit, & ignavae fert mala damna morae.

The more cause have I to count my selfe happy, that am to answer of these matters before a King that is able to discerne betwixt things that differ, and hath knowledge of all these questions.¹ before whom therefore I may speake boldly: because ⟨image 5⟩I am perswaded that none of these things are hid from him. For it is not of late daies that your Majestie hath begun to take these things into your consideration: from a childe have you beene trained up to this warfare; yea before you were twenty yeeres of age, the Lord had taught your hands to fight against the man of sinne, and your fingers to make battell against his Babel. Whereof your Paraphrase upon the Revelation of S. John is a memorable monument left to all posterity: which I can never looke upon, but those verses of the Pöet runne alwaies in my minde: Caesaribus virtus contigit ante diem;² Jngenium coeleste suis velocius annis Surgit, & ignavae fert mala damna morae.