what shall be your portion in Heaven, as well as what you desire on
earth.

Manage your fortune prudently, and forget not that you must give God
an account hereafter, and upon all occasions.

Remember your father, whose true image, though I can never draw to the
life, unless God will grant me that blessing in you; yet, because you
were but ten months and ten days old when God took him out of this
world, I will, for your advantage, show you him with all truth, and
without partiality.

He was of the highest size of men, strong, and of the best proportion;
his complexion sanguine, his skin exceedingly fair, his hair dark
brown and very curling, but not very long; his eyes grey and
penetrating, his nose high, his countenance gracious and wise, his
motion good, his speech clear and distinct. He never used exercise but
walking, and that generally with some book in his hand, which
oftentimes was poetry, in which he spent his idle hours; sometimes he
would ride out to take the air, but his most delight was, to go only
with me in a coach some miles, and there discourse of those things
which then most pleased him, of what nature soever.

He was very obliging to all, and forward to serve his master, his
country, and friend; cheerful in his conversation; his discourse ever
pleasant, mixed with the sayings of wise men, and their histories
repeated as occasion offered, yet so reserved that he never showed the
thought of his heart, in its greatest sense, but to myself only; and
this I thank God with all my soul for, that he never discovered his
trouble to me, but went from me with perfect cheerfulness and content;