Ill News Are Swallow-winged, But What Is

I Had Not To This Time Subsisted, But That I Was Supported By Your Frequent Courtesies And Favours.

True Dignity Is Never Gained By Place, And Never Lost When Honors Are Withdrawn.

Detraction's A Bold Monster, And Fears Not To Wound The Fame Of Princes, If It Find But Any Blemish In Their Lives To Work On.

Greatness, With Private Men Esteem'd A Blessing, Is To Me A Curse; And We, Whom, For Our High Births, They Conclude The Happy Freemen, Are The Only Slaves. Happy The Golden Mean!

The Good Needs Fear No Law, It Is His Safety And The Bad Man's Awe.