Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T25: feare, kings, power, princes, lawes, loue, state, downe, honor, men.
Guiltie, and so not strong to stand vpon a constant foot, They waue, striue, and aspire, can beare no weight aboue, But, as with Soueraigne Power it selfe, and nothing else in loue, That riuall spleene, which Equalls still to Equalls beare, Forgotten, or a-sleepe, as if desire had conquer'd feare, They factiously a peace with their chiefe riuall make, And let in Warres, which, like a Flood, all Sea-banks ouer-rake. In which one act Lawes proue, though nature gaue them ground, That they both mould, and practise tooke from Warre, which hath no bound. Because, like Mars his seed, they feed vpon their owne; And by the spoyle of Crownes, and Men, take glorie to be knowne. In which deare enterchange betweene Church, Lawes, and Might, While all their counsells are allayed, by oueracting, Right; They leaue their supreme pitch to seruile Craft impawn'd, Descending each to traffike there, where he ought to command. Till fondly thus engag'd into a Ciuil Warre, They casting off all publike ends, doe only make to marre. Yet keepe a scope in shew to counterpoise each other, And saue the health, and honor vp of Monarchy their mother. " But as in Man, whose frame is chiefly foure Complexions, Really ioyn'd, dispersed, mixt with opposite connexions, " When any of these fourefold, or distract too farre, Diseases raigne, which but Disorders natiue children are; " From which contention stirr'd 'twixt Nature, and her Foes, While humor weaken humor doth, to health the Bodie growes: " So in these diuerse Powers, excesse of Opposition, Oft, by begetting strange diseases, proues the States Physitian. Mauors, that monster, borne of many-headed Passion, While it seemes to destroy al moulds, to each mould giuing fashion. " Yet as these Elements, thus opposite in kinde, While, ballanc'd by superior ties, they liue, as if combinde " To make their Discords base vnto that harmonie, In whose sweet vnion mildely linkt all Powers concurre to be; " When any breakes too much that poyse wherein they stood, To make his own subsistence firme, with shew of common good; " By oueracting, straight it breaks that well-built frame, Wherin their being stood entire, although they lost their name: " So in that Noble worke of publike Gouernment, When Crownes, Church, Souldiers, or the Lawes, doe ouermuch dissent, " That frame, wherein they liu'd, as fatally dissolu'd; And each in gulfes of selfe-Conceipt, as fatally, inuolu'd. Thus reeles our present State, and her foundation waues, By making Trophees of times past, of present time the graues. Lawes striue to curbe the Church, the Church wounds Lawes againe; The Souldier would haue Church, Throne, Lawes kept low, that he might raigne. And as before, while they ioyn'd to make Empire large, All vnto greatnesse raysed were, by doing well their charge: So now, by pulling quils each from the others wings, They iointly all are cried downe, by letting fall their Kings. A fate prepar'd to shake that Ottoman succession,
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Guiltie, and so not strong to stand vpon a constant foot, They waue, striue, and aspire, can beare no weight aboue, But, as with Soueraigne Power it selfe, and nothing else in loue, That riuall spleene, which Equalls still to Equalls beare, Forgotten, or a-sleepe, as if desire had conquer'd feare, They factiously a peace with their chiefe riuall make, And let in Warres, which, like a Flood, all Sea-banks ouer-rake. In which one act Lawes proue, though nature gaue them ground, That they both mould, and practise tooke from Warre, which hath no bound. Because, like Mars his seed, they feed vpon their owne; And by the spoyle of Crownes, and Men, take glorie to be knowne. In which deare enterchange betweene Church, Lawes, and Might, While all their counsells are allayed, by oueracting, Right; They leaue their supreme pitch to seruile Craft impawn'd, Descending each to traffike there, where he ought to command. Till fondly thus engag'd into a Ciuil Warre, They casting off all publike ends, doe only make to marre. Yet keepe a scope in shew to counterpoise each other, And saue the health, and honor vp of Monarchy their mother. " But as in Man, whose frame is chiefly foure Complexions, " Really ioyn'd, dispersed, mixt with opposite connexions, " When any of these fourefold, or distract too farre, " Diseases raigne, which but Disorders natiue children are; " From which contention stirr'd 'twixt Nature, and her Foes, " While humor weaken humor doth, to health the Bodie growes: " So in these diuerse Powers, excesse of Opposition, " Oft, by begetting strange diseases, proues the States Physitian. Mauors, that monster, borne of many-headed Passion, While it seemes to destroy al moulds, to each mould giuing fashion. " Yet as these Elements, thus opposite in kinde, " While, ballanc'd by superior ties, they liue, as if combinde " To make their Discords base vnto that harmonie, " In whose sweet vnion mildely linkt all Powers concurre to be; " When any breakes too much that poyse wherein they stood, " To make his own subsistence firme, with shew of common good; " By oueracting, straight it breaks that well-built frame, " Wherin their being stood entire, although they lost their name: " So in that Noble worke of publike Gouernment, " When Crownes, Church, Souldiers, or the Lawes, doe ouermuch dissent, " That frame, wherein they liu'd, as fatally dissolu'd; " And each in gulfes of selfe-Conceipt, as fatally, inuolu'd. Thus reeles our present State, and her foundation waues, By making Trophees of times past, of present time the graues. Lawes striue to curbe the Church, the Church wounds Lawes againe; The Souldier would haue Church, Throne, Lawes kept low, that he might raigne. And as before, while they ioyn'd to make Empire large, All vnto greatnesse raysed were, by doing well their charge: So now, by pulling quils each from the others wings, They iointly all are cried downe, by letting fall their Kings. A fate prepar'd to shake that Ottoman succession,