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Government
The Sun ecclips'd in water best appeares,
So should the fall of Kings be seen in Teares.
So should the fall of Kings be seen in Teares.
What has this Government don more
Then what the other did Before?
When State, Religion, and the Laws,
Have all espousd the Good old Cause.
The selfsame Ministers imployd,
That were before on th' other side:
And all that has been Past, and don
Is but the same Continud on.
Then what the other did Before?
When State, Religion, and the Laws,
Have all espousd the Good old Cause.
The selfsame Ministers imployd,
That were before on th' other side:
And all that has been Past, and don
Is but the same Continud on.
Raysd to preferment in the State
Like False Scale, for want of weight.
Like False Scale, for want of weight.
Mighty monarchs, are exprest
In visions by some horned Beast.
In visions by some horned Beast.
A Government so silly and perverse
Is only fit to be destroyd by Beasts.
Is only fit to be destroyd by Beasts.
For what can hold, when truth, and kings
And wine, and women Rout all things?
'Tis Desperate to trust th' Advice
And Pardond Faith of Enemies,
Who use t' accompt the Grace and Favor
But binding to the good Behavior:
For there's no Livery, no Ceasin,
Nor Fines in alienating Treason,
Nor Bonds, but merely at Discretion
One Minute to secure Possession,
Who thinke they have the greatest wrong
Because they are but half-unhung
And only listed for the Gallows
Against the next mischance that Follows;
Which they believe has rather earnd
Revenge, then Fayth to be returnd;
And those that have venturd and came of[f]
Long most to make a Second Proof.
And wine, and women Rout all things?
'Tis Desperate to trust th' Advice
And Pardond Faith of Enemies,
Who use t' accompt the Grace and Favor
But binding to the good Behavior:
For there's no Livery, no Ceasin,
Nor Fines in alienating Treason,
Nor Bonds, but merely at Discretion
One Minute to secure Possession,
Who thinke they have the greatest wrong
Because they are but half-unhung
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Against the next mischance that Follows;
Which they believe has rather earnd
Revenge, then Fayth to be returnd;
And those that have venturd and came of[f]
Long most to make a Second Proof.
False Designes require more Care
In Management then Just and fair.
In Management then Just and fair.
As Princes Favorite, when th' are Boys,
For all his Faults by Proxy pays,
So in Miscarriages of State,
The Favorite is sure to pay't.
For all his Faults by Proxy pays,
So in Miscarriages of State,
The Favorite is sure to pay't.
When once a Princes wil meetes with restraint
His Pow'r is then esteem'd but his Complaint.
His Pow'r is then esteem'd but his Complaint.
That meet not to consult, but Snap
And th' Adverse Interest intrap
To snatch all small Advantages
As if they Playd a Game at Ches.
And th' Adverse Interest intrap
To snatch all small Advantages
As if they Playd a Game at Ches.
More subtle at unriddling Cabals
Then Foxes are in Æsop's Fables
At over-reaching other Beast[s]
And Jugling with their Interests.
Then Foxes are in Æsop's Fables
At over-reaching other Beast[s]
And Jugling with their Interests.
Nothing sinks so soon as Empires
Upheld by Feeble Crazy Tempers.
Upheld by Feeble Crazy Tempers.
Bees are Governd in a Monarchy,
But 'tis some more noble Femal Bee;
For Femals never grow Effeminate
As men Prove often, and subvert a State:
For as they take to Men, and men to them
It is the safest in the worst extreame.
But 'tis some more noble Femal Bee;
For Femals never grow Effeminate
As men Prove often, and subvert a State:
For as they take to Men, and men to them
It is the safest in the worst extreame.
The Gracchi were most Resolute and stout
Who only by their Mother had been taught.
Who only by their Mother had been taught.
And though he livd a Beast and Sot
That still his word, and Faith forgot:
And nere was, till he came to Dy,
In Perfect minde and Memory;
To make his will, in which He gave
Profusely, what He could not save:
As first his Soul to his Creator,
But nere Considerd the maine Matter;
Whether 'twere Just He should Receive
A thing he did not give, but Leave,
Which He so Carelessly Had Kept,
The Devill hardly would accept.
That still his word, and Faith forgot:
And nere was, till he came to Dy,
In Perfect minde and Memory;
To make his will, in which He gave
Profusely, what He could not save:
As first his Soul to his Creator,
But nere Considerd the maine Matter;
Whether 'twere Just He should Receive
A thing he did not give, but Leave,
Which He so Carelessly Had Kept,
The Devill hardly would accept.
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As those, who by the Law o' th' Land,
Are Sentencd to be burnt i' th' Hand:
Give thanks upon their Bended knees,
For Having th' honor of th' Imprese.
Are Sentencd to be burnt i' th' Hand:
Give thanks upon their Bended knees,
For Having th' honor of th' Imprese.
That have more Politique Intrigues
In Poynts, and Knots, and Periwigs,
Then Statesmen have in breaking Leagues.
In Poynts, and Knots, and Periwigs,
Then Statesmen have in breaking Leagues.
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