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Cannot your great men fuffer others to
Have part in rule, but must have all to do?
Now, good my Lord, conform you to the rest,
Let not your wings be greater that your neft.

Daniel's Philotas:
A state well rul'd, the fame of kings doth raise,
No less than foughten fields, or batter'd towns :
More hard it is, and doth deferve more praise,
To guide, than get ; to keep, than conquer crowns:
E. of Sterline's Darius,
Virtue did then mens hearts fo much inflame,
That no promotion could be got with gold 3-
For in his days he that defired fame,

Bought it of him, that it full dearly fold:
Hateful excess so much did not devour,
Law had lefs force, and honefty more pow'r.

Drayton's Pierce Gaveston

He is unfit to manage publick matters,

Who knows not how to rule at home his houfhold.

O madam,

John Ford's Fancy's Chafte and Noble.

Your fex is too imperious to rule!

You are too busy, and too ftirring, to

Be put in action; your curiofity

Would do as much harm in a kingdom, as

A monkey in a glass fhop; move, and remove,

'Till you had broken all.

Cartwright's Royal Slave.

Rule of itself's a toil, and none would bear it,

But that 'twixt pride and avarice,

And clofe revenge they'll fhare it.

Alex. Brome.

The victor's folid recompence is reft;
And 'tis unjuft, that chiefs who pleasure shun,
Toiling in youth, fhould be in age opprest
With greater toils, by ruling what they won.

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert.

Could

Could

every one that careless fits

On his high throne, depute his power

Where it might mingle with fuch innocence,
Monarchal fway would be belov'd; for 'tis

Our worst mistake, to think the arts of government
So hard; fince a perfection in the skill

To rule, is lefs requir'd, than in a perfect will.

Sir W. Davenant's Fair Favourite.

GRATITUD E.

And you fresh bud of virtue fpringing fast,
Whom these fad eyes faw nigh unto death's door,
What hath poor virgin for fuch peril paft
Wherewith you to reward? Accept therefore
My fimple felf, and fervice ever more:
And he that does high fit, and all things fee
With equall eyes, their merits to restore,
Behold what ye this day have done for me;
And what I cannot quite, requite with ufury.

Spenfer's Fairy Queen.

As our joys grow,
We must remember still from whence they flow.
Middleton's Chafte Maid in Cheapfide.

1. Here's a fmall amends.
2. 'Tis more than due, fir, yet I'll take it all;
Should kindness be defpis'd, good will would fall
Unto a lower ebb, fhould we deteft

The grateful giver's gift, veriffimum eft.

Rob. Tailor's Hog hath loft his Pearl.

Does the kind-root bleed out his livelihood

As parent diftributions to his branches,

Proud that his pride is feen, when he's unfeen;
And muft not gratitude defcend again

To comfort his old limbs in fruitless winter
Improvident ?

Malfinger, Middleton and Rowley's Old Law.

The benefits he fow'd in me, met not
Unthankful ground, but yielded him his own
With fair increase; and I still glory in it:

And

And though my fortune's poor, compar'd to his,
And Milan weigh'd with France, appear as nothing,
Are in thy fury burnt: Let it be mention'd,
They ferv'd but as fmall tapers to attend
The folemn flame at this great funeral :
And with them I will gladly wafle myself,
Rather than undergo the imputation,
Of being bafe or unthankful.

Mafinger's Duke of Milan.

I find a pious gratitude difperfe

Within my foul; and ev'ry thought of him
Ingenders a warm figh within me, which
Like curls of holy incenfe, overtake
Each other in my bofom, and inlarge
With their embrace his fweet remembrance.

Shirley's Brothers.
This is not ingratitude; or if it be, it does
As thankfulness in great ones ufe to do,
It looks a-fquint, and feems to turn to favours,
But regards new ends.

Suckling's Sad One.

GREATNESS.

When these fad fights were over-paft and gone,
My fpright was greatly moved in her reft,
With inward ruth and dear affection,

To fee fo great things by fo fmall diftreft:
Thenceforth I 'gan in my engrieved breast,
To fcorn all difference of great and small,
Sith that the greatest oftneft are oppreft,
And unawares do into danger fall:
And ye that read thefe ruins tragicall,
Learn by their lofs to love the low degree;
And if that fortune chance you up to call
To honour's feat, forget not what ye be :
For he that of himself is moft fecure,
Shall find his ftate moft fickle and unfure.

Spenfer's Vifions of the World's Vanity.

Examples,

Examples, have the wifeft warned oft,

That where the trees the smallest branches bear,
The ftorms do blow, and have most rigour there.
Where is it ftrong, but near the ground and root ?
Where is it weak, but on the highest sprays?
Where may a man fo furely fet his foot,

But on those boughs, that groweth low always?
The little twigs are but unftedfaft ftays,
If they break not, they bend with ev'ry blast ;
Who trufts to them, fhall never ftand full fast.

Churchyard in the Mirror for Magiftrates, Greatness in fway of state gives wings t'afpire; Advancement feeds ambition with defire.

Oh place! Oh form!

Mirror for Magiftrates.

How often doeft thou with thy cafe, thy habit,
Wrench awe from fcols, and tye the wiser fouls
To thy falfe feeming ?

Shakespear's Measure for Meafure.
'Tis certain, greatness, once fall'n out with fortune,
Muft fall out with men too; what the declin'd is,
He shall as foon read in the eyes of others,

As feel in his own fall: For men, like butter-flies,
Shew not their mealy wings but to the fummer;
And not a man, for being fimply man,

Hath honour, but is honour'd by thofe honours
That are without him; as place, riches, favour;
Prizes of accident, as oft as merit :

Which when they fall, as being flipp'ry standers,
The love that lean'd on them, as flipp'ry too,
Do one pluck down another, and together
Die in the fall.

Shakespear's Troilus and Creffida.
Greatnefs hath its cankers, worms, and moths ;
Bred out of too much humour, in the things
Which after they confume; transferring quite
The fubftance of their makers into themfelves.

John fon's Sejanus.
Fortune,

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Fortune, not reafon, rules the ftate of things;
Reward goes backward, honour on his head :
Who is not poor, is monftrous; only need
Gives form and worth to ev'ry human seed.
As cedars beaten with continual ftorms,
So great men flourish; and do imitate
Unskilful ftatuaries, who fuppofe

In forming a coloffus, if they make him
Straddle enough, ftrut, and look big, and gape,
Their work is goodly: So men merely great
(In their affected gravity of voice,

Sow'rnefs of count'nance, manners, cruelty,
Authority, wealth, and all the fpawn of fortune)
Think they bear all the kingdom's worth before them ;
Yet differ not from those coloffick ftatues,

Which with heroick forms without o'er-spread ;
Within, are naught but mortar, flint, and lead.
Chapman's Buffey D'ambois.

I have found,

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warrant

Thanks to the bleffer of my search, that counfels Held to the line of justice, ftill produce The fureft ftates; and greatest being fure: Without which fit affiftance in the greatest, As you may fee a mighty promontory More digg'd and under-eaten, than may A fafe fupportance to his hanging brows, All paffengers avoid him, fhun all ground That lies within his shadow, and bear still A flying eye upon him; fo great men Corrupted in their grounds, and building out Too fwelling fronts for their foundations ; When moft they should be propt, are most forfaken: And men will rather thrust into the ftorms Of better grounded ftates, then take a shelter Beneath their ruinous, and fearful weight: Yet they, fo overfee their faulty bafes, That they remain fecurer in conceit.

Chapman's First Part of Byron's Confpiracy.

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