Patience In Princes.

Kings must not use the axe for each offence:
Princes cure some faults by their patience.

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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Patience: Or, Comforts In Crosses.

Abundant plagues I late have had,
Yet none of these have made me sad:
For why? My Saviour with the sense
Of suff'ring gives me patience.

Robert Herrick

Gentleness.

That prince must govern with a gentle hand
Who will have love comply with his command.

Robert Herrick

Pardon.

God pardons those who do through frailty sin,
But never those that persevere therein.

Robert Herrick

Clemency In Kings.

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

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Policy In Princes.

That princes may possess a surer seat,
'Tis fit they make no one with them too great.

Robert Herrick

Duty To Tyrants.

Good princes must be pray'd for; for the bad
They must be borne with, and in rev'rence had.
Do they first pill thee, next pluck off thy skin?
Good children kiss the rods that punish sin.
Touch not the tyrant; let the gods alone
To strike him dead that but usurps a throne.

Robert Herrick