To a Vain Impudent Courtier of King Charles the Second's
't is Treason in vain Courtiers to advile
Their Prince, who knows he's sovereignly wise;
Since nothing more can lessen Majesty,
Than to suppose it's Insufficiency:
For Kings in Council, as in War, are known
Aid to desire, but not to be outdone
In force of Head, or Arms, by any one.
A Subject then should claim the Royal Ear,
But as a modest, good Remembrancer:
Not to teach Monarchs what they knew not yet,
But that they might not, what they knew, forget.
Their Prince, who knows he's sovereignly wise;
Since nothing more can lessen Majesty,
Than to suppose it's Insufficiency:
For Kings in Council, as in War, are known
Aid to desire, but not to be outdone
In force of Head, or Arms, by any one.
A Subject then should claim the Royal Ear,
But as a modest, good Remembrancer:
Not to teach Monarchs what they knew not yet,
But that they might not, what they knew, forget.
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