Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…

Sir William was very hardly Handled (or Tongued at least) in the Liberty which People took to make most unbecoming and Injurious Reflections upon his Conduct, and Clamour against him even for those very Actions, which were not only Necessary to be done, but highly Beneficial unto themselves; And though he would ordinarily smile at their Frowardness, calling it, His Country Pay, yet he sometimes resented it with some uneasiness; he seemed unto himself sometimes almost as bad as Rolled about in Regulus's Barrel; and had occasion to think on the Italian Proverb, To wait for one who does not come; to lie a Bed not able to sleep; and to find it impossible to please those whom we serve, are three Griefs enough to kill a Man.

Sir William was very hardly Handled (or Torgued at least) in the Liberty which People took to make most unbecoming and Injurious Reflections upon his Conduct, and Clamour against him even for those very Actions, which were not only Necessary to be done, but highly Beneficial unto themselves; And though he would ordinarily smile at their Frowardness, calling it, His Country Pay, yet he sometimes resented it with some uneasiness; he seem'd unto himself sometimes almost as bad as Rolled about in Regulus's Barrel; and had occasion to think on the Italian Proverb, To wait for one who does not come; to ly a Bed not able to sleep; and to find it impossible to please those whom we serve, are three Griefs enough to kill a Man.

But as Forward as the People were, under the Epidemical Vexations of the Age, yet there were very few that would not acknowledge unto the very Last, It will be hardly possible for us to see another Governor, that shall more entirely Love and serve the ⟨p. 101⟩Country: Yea, had the Country had the Choice of their own Governor, 'tis judged their Votes, more than forty to one, would have still fallen upon him to have been the Man: And the General Assembly therefore on all occasions renewed their Petitions unto the King for his Continuance.

But as Forward as the People were, under the Epedemical Vexations of the Age, yet there were very few that would not acknowledge unto the very Last, It will be hardly possible for us to see another Governour, that shall more entirely Love and serve the