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Sonnet 8.
[Som reasoned thus; No violence can last]
Som reasoned thus; No violence can last:
Revolted Subiects, of themselues will quail:
Iust Soueraignty can never be displac't;
And lawfull Princes first or last preuail:
But who could think, that the conioyned powers
Of Spain and Rome, with an exceeding number
Of rebell Cities, and false States of ours,
So weak a King so little should encumber?
Others discoursed in another sort,
While all things sorted to another end
Then their imaginations did purport:
That earth may knowe, it cannot comprehend
The secret depths of Iudgements all-divine,
No: there's no ground, beginning, midst, nor fine.
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