Cruelty Base In Commanders.

Nothing can be more loathsome than to see
Power conjoin'd with Nature's cruelty.

Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is known for his book of poems, "Hesperides," which includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." His works are noted for their clarity, simplicity, and musical quality. Herrick was also a vicar of Dean Prior in Devon, despite being ejected during the English Civil War and later reinstated.

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Sabbaths.

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Lots To Be Liked.

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Upon Peason. Epig.

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'Tis but a dog-like madness in bad kings,
For to delight in wounds and murderings:
As some plants prosper best by cuts and blows,
So kings by killing do increase their foes.

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Cruelties.

Nero commanded; but withdrew his eyes
From the beholding death and cruelties.

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Pity To The Prostrate.

'Tis worse than barbarous cruelty to show
No part of pity on a conquered foe.

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Clemency In Kings.

Kings must not only cherish up the good,
But must be niggards of the meanest blood.

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Evil.

Evil no nature hath; the loss of good
Is that which gives to sin a livelihood.

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Clemency.

For punishment in war it will suffice
If the chief author of the faction dies;
Let but few smart, but strike a fear through all;
Where the fault springs there let the judgment fall.

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