Meditations and Observations , ih ologicaB

who otherwise would quickly come to nothing, who were atfirst made of nothing, and have our present support and subsi-stence in our Cod alone.

LXXXVIII.

The Queenc-Bee never useth her sting; and is therein a mo-nitor to Great men and Princes, to labour for a meek and mer-cifull behaviour. Let Princes use their power for ^ not againsttheir subjects.

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Sen. 1. 1 . deClemen.Camden, hi)}.re£. Eli^ib.

2{on hos quafitur tnunus in ufus.

Let them not hold too strict a hand over the oppressed peo-ple, let it not be said of their subjects, as it was said of the Ro-mane souldiers under Sever us. that they were more afraid oftheir Captaine then of their enemies: if they dishearten themwho shall comfort them,or stand for them ? Yet many Princesuse their people ( though such as the world cannot paralell) asthcHawke in Hejiod. dealt with-the melodious Nightingale,they plume them,and then devoure them. Seneca, in his bookesof Clemency which Q^Elizabeth so highly esteemed that thegave them the next place to the holy Scriptures, faith, Let thy 1sword not only be put in thy sheath, but also eyed fast in it;be sparing of the meanest and basest blood. It is for men of ilower condition to fall into quarrells and strifes; equalls mayexchange blowes one with another without much danger. Ik jftandeth not with the Ma jestie of a Prince to engage himselsein any quarrel! or fight, because he bath no equall to contendwith him -. so farre ought it to be from a Prince to brawle orwrangle, that the straining of his voyce is unbefitting him uponany occasion whatsoever.

L X X XIX.

Bees are industrious in their season, for they well know thatthe neglect of it is their irrecoverable overthrow and destructi-on. And this life is the summer and harvest,wherein we must la-bour and watch against temptatiors. The death-bed or dying

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