"When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the mead…"

"And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies."

"A beastly ambition, which the gods grant thee t' attain to! If thou wert the lion, the fox would beguile thee; if tho…"

"Yet looks he like a king; behold, his eye, As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth Controlling majesty."

"A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state Empties itself, as doth an inland brook…"

"Let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings: How some have been depos'd, some slain in war,…"

"Ay, every inch a king."

"The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotio…"

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

"There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would."