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It is reported of Boleslaus the fourth, King of Poland, that he used to have ⟨p. 40⟩the picture of his father hanging about his neck, in a plate of gold, and when he was to speak, or do any thing of importance, he took this picture, and kissing it said; Dear father I wish I may not do any thing remissly, unworthy of thy name. Oh that many of our nobility, whose ancestors have been famous for godliness, would often have such thoughts as these; that they would often consider how unworthy of the name of their noble ancestors those ways are, in which now they walk! Certainly our parentage is a mighty engagement unto us for noble and virtuous actions. I see nothing in nobility to be desired, says Jerome, but that noble men are constrained,¹ by a kind of necessity, not to degenerate from the goodness of their ancestors. It is the happiness of godly parents when they dye, to see hope of their godliness to live in their children, to preserve the lives of their godly parents in themselves. Ambrose ⟨p. 41⟩in his funeral Oration upon Theodosius says,² that though Theodosius be gone, yet he is not wholly gone, for he hath left Honorius with other of his children in whom Theodosius still lives. Oh that it might be said of many of our ancient religious nobility, that although they be gone, yet they are not wholly gone, for they have left their religious truly noble children in whom still they live!³ but woe unto us,⁴ how many of them are gone, yea they are wholly gone, nothing of their true nobility is left remaining in their family, but only empty titles.

It is reported of Boleslaus the fourth, King of Poland, that hee used to have ⟨p. 40⟩the picture of his father hanging about his neck, in a plate of gold, and when he was to speake, or doe any thing of importance, hee tooke this picture, and kissing it said; Deare father I wish I may not doe any thing remissely, unworthy of thy name. Oh that many of our nobility, whose ancestors have beene famous for godlinesse, would often have such thoughts as these; that they would often consider how unworthy of the name of their noble ancestors those waies are, in which now they walke! Certainely our parentage is a mighty engagement unto us for noble and vertuous actions. I see nothing in nobility to be desired, saies Jerome, but that noble men are constrained,