"Kingdoms are but cares; State is devoid of stay; Riches are ready snares, And hasten to decay. Pleasure is a privy prick Which vice doth still provoke; Pomp, unprompt; and fame, a flame; Power, a smold'ring smoke. Who meaneth to remove the rock Out of the slimy mud Shall mire himself, and hardly 'scape The swelling of the flood."
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Attributed by Sir John Harington, Letter to Prince Henry (1609) in Nugae Antiquae (1769)
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Henry VI of England
Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. The only child of Henry V, he succeeded to the English throne at the age of eight months, upon his father's death, and to the French throne on the death of his maternal grandfather, Charles VI, shortly afterwards.
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