SHAME NO STATIST.
by Robert Herrick


SHAME is a bad attendant to a state :
He rents his crown that fears the people's hate.



Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 227.



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