Why doe men grudge at those, who raysed be, By royall Favour, from a low degree? Know this; _Hee should be honour’d, whom the King, To place of Dignity, shall please to bring_. Why should they blame their _Kings_, for fav’ring such, Whom, they have thought, scarce meriting so much? _God rules their Hearts; and, they, themselves deceive, Who dreame, that Kings exalt, without Gods leave._ Why murmure they at _God_, for guiding so The Hearts of _Kings_, as oft they see him doe? Or, at his _Workes_, why should they take offence, As if their _Wit_, could teach his _Providence_? _His just, and his all-seeing =Wisedome= knowes, Both =whom=, and =why= he crownes, or overthrowes; And, =for what cause=, the Hearts of =Princes=, bee =Inlarg’d=, or =shut=; when we no cause can see;_ We sometime know, what’s _well_, and what’s _amisse_; But, of those _Truths_, the root concealed is; And, False-hoods, and Uncertainties, there are, In most of those things, which we _speake_, or _heare_. Then, were not _Kings_ directed by _God’s_ hand, They, who are best, and wisest in the Land, Might oft misguide them, either by receiving A _False report_, or, by some _wrong-believing_. God’s _Grace_ it is, that _Good-men_ rays’d have bin: If _Sinners_ flourish, we may thanke our _Sin_. Both _Good_ and _Bad_, so like in _out-sides_ be, That, _Kings_ may be deceiv’d, in what they see; And, if _God_ had not rul’d their _Hearts_ aright, The _World_, by this time, had been ruin’d quite. _A =Vertue= hidden, or not us’d, Is either =Sloth=, or =Grace= abus’d._ [Illustration: CELATA VIRTUS IGNAVIA EST. ILLVSTR. XLVII. _Book. 3_]