Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T25: feare, kings, power, princes, lawes, loue, state, downe, honor, men.
Below the danger of Omnipotence. Are thoughts, and deeds confounded any where? In Princes liues, that may not suffer feare. Where Place vnequall equally is weigh'd, There Power supreme is ballanc'd, not obey'd. This is the way to make Accusers proud, And feed vp starued Spite with guiltlesse blood. A iust aduantage vnto Kings allow'd, Whose safeties doe include a common good. Sir! I confesse, where one man ruleth all, There feare, and care are secret wayes of wit; Where All may rise, and only One must fall, There Pride aspires, and Power must master it: For worlds repine at those, whom Birth, or Chance, Aboue all men, and yet but Men, aduance. I know when easie hopes doe nurse desire, The Deadmen onely of the Wise are trusted: And though crook'd Feare doe seldome rightly measure, As thinking all things, but it selfe, dissembled: Yet Solyman! let Feare awake Kings counsells. But feare not Natures lawes, which seldome alter, Nor rare examples of iniquity, Which, but with age, of time deliuered be: Feare false Stepmothers rage, Womans ambition, Whereof each Age to other is a Glasse; Feare them that feare not, for desire, shame; Selling their faiths to bring their ends to passe. Establish Rossa's children for your heires; Let Mustapha's hopes fall; translate his right: And when her proud Ambitions glutted be, Straight Enuie dies; Feare will appeare no more: Nature takes on the shape it had before. Shall Error scape by Art? And shall a bare Stepmothers name, in her that speaketh truth, Disguise, and shadow Parricide from blame? Intents are seeds, and actions they include. Princes, whose Scepters must be fear'd of many, Are neuer safe that liue in feare of any Tyrants they are that punish out of feare, States wiser than the truth decline, and weare. Thou art but one. The rest, in whom I trust, Discerne his fault, and vrge me to be iust. Though Factions strength be great, her sleight is more; Her plots, and instruments inlay'd with Art: Lesse care hath Truth than hath the euill part. Traytor! Must I doubt all to credit thee? No lesse is Truth, where Kings deceiu'd will be. The greater number holds the safest parts. That one is but the least of Factions arts. Thy counsell hazards all: Their course but one. That painted hazard is but made the Gate, For ruine of your Sonne to enter at. Truth must the measure be to slaue, and King. Shall Power then lose her oddes in any thing? God, euen to himselfe, hath made a law. He doth for Fame, what Kings doe but for awe. What, but Desert, makes those that praise accuse? The Vertue they admire, and cannot vse. Dare ought, but Truth, assaile a Princes childe? On Princes frailties Factions euer build. Speake plaine, and free my soule from this disease, That with the ruine of mine owne would please. That which you will not feele, how can you see? For in your loue these workes were all inweau'd; With which most worthy men are most deceiu'd.
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Below the danger of Omnipotence. Are thoughts, and deeds confounded any where? In Princes liues, that may not suffer feare. Where Place vnequall equally is weigh'd, There Power supreme is ballanc'd, not obey'd. This is the way to make Accusers proud, And feed vp starued Spite with guiltlesse blood. A iust aduantage vnto Kings allow'd, Whose safeties doe include a common good. Sir! I confesse, where one man ruleth all, There feare, and care are secret wayes of wit; Where All may rise, and only One must fall, There Pride aspires, and Power must master it: For worlds repine at those, whom Birth, or Chance, Aboue all men, and yet but Men, aduance. I know when easie hopes doe nurse desire, The Deadmen onely of the Wise are trusted: And though crook'd Feare doe seldome rightly measure, As thinking all things, but it selfe, dissembled: Yet Solyman! let Feare awake Kings counsells. But feare not Natures lawes, which seldome alter, Nor rare examples of iniquity, Which, but with age, of time deliuered be: Feare false Stepmothers rage, Womans ambition, Whereof each Age to other is a Glasse; Feare them that feare not, for desire, shame; Selling their faiths to bring their ends to passe. Establish Rossa's children for your heires; Let Mustapha's hopes fall; translate his right: And when her proud Ambitions glutted be, Straight Enuie dies; Feare will appeare no more: Nature takes on the shape it had before. Shall Error scape by Art? And shall a bare Stepmothers name, in her that speaketh truth, Disguise, and shadow Parricide from blame? Intents are seeds, and actions they include. Princes, whose Scepters must be fear'd of many, Are neuer safe that liue in feare of any Tyrants they are that punish out of feare, States wiser than the truth decline, and weare. Thou art but one. The rest, in whom I trust, Discerne his fault, and vrge me to be iust. Though Factions strength be great, her sleight is more; Her plots, and instruments inlay'd with Art: Lesse care hath Truth than hath the euill part. Traytor! Must I doubt all to credit thee? No lesse is Truth, where Kings deceiu'd will be. The greater number holds the safest parts. That one is but the least of Factions arts. Thy counsell hazards all: Their course but one. That painted hazard is but made the Gate, For ruine of your Sonne to enter at. Truth must the measure be to slaue, and King. Shall Power then lose her oddes in any thing? God, euen to himselfe, hath made a law. He doth for Fame, what Kings doe but for awe. What, but Desert, makes those that praise accuse? The Vertue they admire, and cannot vse. Dare ought, but Truth, assaile a Princes childe? On Princes frailties Factions euer build. Speake plaine, and free my soule from this disease, That with the ruine of mine owne would please. That which you will not feele, how can you see? For in your loue these workes were all inweau'd; With which most worthy men are most deceiu'd.