Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night

Princes in this case Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.

Folly in youth is sin, in age 'tis madness.

For 'tis some ease our sorrows to reveal, If they to whom we shall impart our woes, Seem but to feel a part of what we feel, And meet us with a sigh, but at the close.

And you shall find the greatest enemy A man can have is his prosperity.

But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.

The absent danger greater still appears; Less fears he who is near the thing he fears.