Wittes Pilgrimage (by Poeticall Essaies): Through a VVorld of amorous Sonnets, Soule-passions, and other Passages, Diuine, Philosophicall, Morall, Poeticall, and Politicall. By Iohn Davies |
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(17)
[It is no easie skill to rule aright]
It is no easie skill to rule aright;The Helm of State one Hand can hardly sway:
They must needs vse the left, as wel as right,
That in a right Course, wil a Kingdome stay:
For, like as Hercules (as Poets faine)
VVas gotten in a Night as long as two,
Because that Phebus did his horses raigne
Till Iupiter that Deed, did throughly Do:
So, a right statseman must of force be bred
In a long Night of Silence, and sad thought;
And in deep skill should hide his subtil Head.
Til his skill be Herculean as it ought;
And then, though Atlas on him Heu'n impose,
He that huge Burden, staidly under-goes!
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