Examples; Or, Like Prince, Like People.

This is the height of justice: that to do
Thyself which thou put'st other men unto.
As great men lead, the meaner follow on,
Or to the good, or evil action.

Like will to like, each creature loves his kind;
Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind.

Like those infernal deities which eat
The best of all the sacrificed meat;
And leave their servants but the smoke and sweat:
So many kings, and primates too there are,
Who claim the fat and fleshy for their share
And leave their subjects but the starved ware.

Princes and fav'rites are most dear, while they
By giving and receiving hold the play;
But the relation then of both grows poor,
When these can ask, and kings can give no more.

Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall,
Short lot or not, to be content with all.

Wantons we are, and though our words be such,
Our lives do differ from our lines by much.