86596596"In Tarquin's likeness I did entertain thee.

597597Hast thou put on his shape to do him shame?

598598To all the host of heaven I complain me.

599599Thou wrong'st his honor, wound'st his princely name.

600600Thou art not what thou seem'st, and if the same,

601601Thou seem'st not what thou art, a god, a king;

602602For kings, like gods, should govern everything."

87603603"How will thy shame be seeded in thine age

604604When thus thy vices bud before thy spring?

605605If in thy hope thou dar'st do such outrage,

606606What dar'st thou not when once thou art a king?

607607O, be remembered, no outrageous thing

608608From vassal actors can be wiped away;

609609Then kings' misdeeds cannot be hid in clay."

88610610"This deed will make thee only loved for fear,

611611But happy monarchs still are feared for love.

612612With foul offenders thou perforce must bear

613613When they in thee the like offenses prove.

614614If but for fear of this, thy will remove;

615615For princes are the glass, the school, the book,

616616Where subjects' eyes do learn, do read, do look."

89617617"And wilt thou be the school where lust shall learn?

618618Must he in thee read lectures of such shame?

619619Wilt thou be glass wherein it shall discern

620620Authority for sin, warrant for blame,

621621To privilege dishonor in thy name?

622622Thou back'st reproach against long-living laud

623623And mak'st fair reputation but a bawd."

90624624"Hast thou command? By him that gave it thee,

625625From a pure heart command thy rebel will.

626626Draw not thy sword to guard iniquity,

627627For it was lent thee all that brood to kill.

628628Thy princely office how canst thou fulfill

629629When, patterned by thy fault, foul sin may say

630630He learned to sin, and thou didst teach the way?"