First published in 1625.

COLLATED WITH THE POSTHUMOUS LATIN EDITION OF 1638.

To which is added

A Fragment of an Essay,
OF FAME.

First published in Resuscitatio, in 1657.

THE

ESSAYES

OR

COVNSELS,

CIVILL AND

MORALL,

OF

FRANCIS LO. VERVLAM,

VISCOVNT St. ALBAN.

Newly written.

LONDON,

Printed by IOHN HAVILAND for

HANNA BARRET.

1625.

THE EPISTLE DEDICATORIE.

ΤΟ

THE RIGHT HONORABLE
MY VERY GOOD LO. THE DVKE
of Buckingham his Grace, Lo.
High Admirall of England.

EXCELLENT LO.

ALOMON faies; A good Name is as
a precious oyntment; And I affure
my felfe, fuch wil
your
Name bee, with Pofteritie.

Graces

For

your Fortune, and Merit both, haue beene Eminent. And you haue planted Things, that are like to laft. I doe now publish my Effayes; which, of all my other workes, haue beene most Currant: For that, as it seemes, they come home, to Mens Bufineffe, and Bofomes. I haue enlarged them, both in Number, and Weight; So that they are indeed a New Worke. I thought it therefore agreeable, to my Affection, and Obligation to your Grace, to prefix your Name before them, both in English, and in Latine. For I doe conceiue, that the Latine Volume of them, (being in the Vniuerfall Language) may laft, as long as Bookes laft. My Fnftauration, I dedicated to the King: My Historie of HENRY the Seuenth, (which I haue now also tranflated into Latine) and my Portions of Naturall History, to the Princ: And these I dedicate to your Grace; Being of the best Fruits, that by the good Encrease, which God giues to my Pen and Labours, I could yeeld. God leade your Grace by the Hand.

Your Graces moft Obliged and faithfull Seruant,
FR. St. ALBAN.