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His fair large front and eye sublime declared
Absolute rule; and hyacinthine looks
Round from his parted forelock manly hung
Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad.

MiltonParadise Lost. Bk. IV. L. 300.


2

'Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

MontaigneEssays. Of the Inconveniences of Greatness.


3

A crown! what is it?
It is to bear the miseries of a people!
To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents,
And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

Hannah MoreDaniel. Pt. VI.


4

An nescis longos regibus esse manus?

Knowest thou not that kings have long hands?

OvidHeroides. XVII. 166.


5

Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.
It is something to hold the scepter with a
firm hand.
Ovn>—Remedia Amoris. 480.


6

The King is dead! Long live the King!

Pardoe—Life of Louis XIV. Vol. III. P. 457. </poem>


7

But all's to no end, for the times will not mend
Till the King enjoys his own again.
Martin Parker. Upon Defacing of WhiteHall. (1645)
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The public burthen of the nation's care.
Prior—Solomon. Bk. III. L. 275.


9

Put not your trust in princes.
Psalms. CXLVI. 3.


10

Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.
To know how to dissemble is the knowledge
of kings.
Richelieu—Miranne.


11

A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.
Earl op Rochester—On the King.


12

Here lies our sovereign lord, the king,
Whose word no man relies on,
Who never said a foolish thing,
And never did a wise one.
Rochester. To Charles II. "That is very
true, for my words are my own. My actions
are my minister's." Answer of Charles II,
according to the account in Hume's History
of England. VIII. P. 312.


13

Here lies our mutton-looking king,
Whose word, no man relied on,
Who never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one.
Another version of Rochester's Epitaph on
Charles II, included in works of Quarles.
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14

Wenn die Konige bau'n, haben die Karrner zu thun.

When kings are building, draymen have something to do. Schiller—Kant und Seine Ausleger. </poem>


15

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
Scott—Marmion. Canto V. St. 9.


16

O Richard! O my king!
The universe forsakes thee!
Michel Jean Sedaine—Richard Caew. de
Lion. Blondel's Song.


17

Alieno in loco
Haud stabile regnum est.
The throne of another is not stable for thee.
Seneca—Hercules Furens. CCCXLIV.


18

Ars prima regni posse te invidiam pati.
The first art to be learned by a ruler is to
endure envy.
Seneca—Hercules Furens. CCCLHI.


19

Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.
Every monarch is subject to a mightier one.
Seneca—Hercules Furens. DCXIV.


20

His legs bestrid the ocean; Iris rear'd arm
Crested the world: his voice was propertied
As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends;
But when he meant to quail and shake the orb,
He was as rattling thunder.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 28.


21

The gates of monarchs
Are arch'd so high that giants may jet through
And keep their impious turbans on.
Cymbeline. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 4.


22

There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
That treason can but peep to what it would.
Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 5. L. 123.


23

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Henry IV. Pt. II. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 31.


24

Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own.

Henry V. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 186.


25

And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.
Henry VI. Pt.HI. Act IV. Sc.7. L. 63.


26

O, how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!
There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
More pangs and fears than wars and women have;
And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
Never to hope again.
Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 366.


27

She had all the royal makings of a queen;
As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,
The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems
Laid nobly on her.
Henry VIII. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 87.