Like Pattern, Like People.

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

Examples lead us, and we likely see;
Such as the prince is, will his people be.

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

Did I or love, or could I others draw
To the indulgence of the rugged law,
The first foundation of that zeal should be
By reading all her paragraphs in thee,
Who dost so fitly with the laws unite,
As if you two were one hermaphrodite.
Nor courts[t] thou her because she's well attended
With wealth, but for those ends she was intended:
Which were, - and still her offices are known, -
Law is to give to ev'ry one his own;
To shore the feeble up against the strong,
To shield the stranger and the poor from wrong.
This was the founder's grave and good intent:
To keep the outcast in his tenement,
To free the orphan from that wolf-like man,
Who is his butcher more than guardian;
To dry the widow's tears, and stop her swoons,
By pouring balm and oil into her...

No man so well a kingdom rules as he
Who hath himself obeyed the sovereignty.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel;
That man lives twice that lives the first life well.