"The King of Spaine weares at this day (perchance) a homely Cassocke of blacke Serge, many a Curate in his Country having a better; whereas the King of China gives not presence, but rarely at the great suit of his people, and that out at the window of a gilded chamber, himselfe gloriously shining in Rubies, in Gold and Diamonds; and that at such time too, as the Sunne shining upon him, even dazles the eyes of his adoring subjects, with the glitter of the reflection; and this they thinke the Sunne doth in favour of him, whence they call him, The Sonne of the Sunne."
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Giovanni Botero
Giovanni Botero (Latin: Boterus; c. 1544 – 23 June 1617) was an Italian thinker, priest, poet, and diplomat, and author.
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