Rapine Brings Ruin.

Among disasters that dissension brings,
This not the least is, which belongs to kings:
If wars go well, each for a part lays claim;
If ill, then kings, not soldiers, bear the blame.

In battles what disasters fall,
The king he bears the blame of all.

Where pleasures rule a kingdom, never there
Is sober virtue seen to move her sphere.

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

All has been plunder'd from me but my wit:
Fortune herself can lay no claim to it.

That prince who may do nothing but what's just,
Rules but by leave, and takes his crown on trust.