Epigrams theological, philosophical, and romantick Six books, also the Socratic Session, or the Arraignment and Conviction, of Julius Scaliger, with other Select Poems. By S. Sheppard |
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Epig. 5. The proofe of Princes.
I wonder Princes should be good,(When I conceit them flesh and blood)
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What ease, what Treasure,
Can't he Command
And not obtaine, that's Ruler o're a Land?
Who dares enquire
Or thwart's desire,
Who dare begin
To tax his Vice, or call a Sin, a Sin?
Who will not be
(Nay what is he)
Won't fan the fire,
To increase the flames, of his unblown desire?
What sawcy eye
On him dares prie?
What season will
Not wait, his Royall lust for to fulfill?
Then (sure) that Prince,
Can curbe his Sence,
Swaying his Passion,
Is more then Man, and fit to rule a Nation.
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