WRIGHT - An account of his excellence - 1688 copia

72 and in A florid Italian Oration, firft addrefling to the Queen, continu'd the Argument, thro' a world of matter ; but how to bring that world into a Compendium, or Map, will be a queftion. In fhort, he trac'd His Majelly, from his infancy, to his riper years ; and his early cou- rage, to his full manhood : Follow'd him,through all his various fortunes, at home, and abroad: His exemplary Actions in France, and Flanders, where, to capacitate him for Admiral of the Ocean, Victory fhook of her Pinnions, as refol- ving, never to part from him: He further went on, That Fortune had provided new Darts, to wound his fucceflton, yet they broke themfelvesy on what they were (hot a t ; nay,all her tryals con- fer!: his maftery, and inftead of overthrowing, did but contribute, to the faftning his roots: Nor ought I (continued he) in the day of fo much joy, tohavementiondi,t but that it was no tun- pleafant to Hercules, to look back, on his pail toils. . But