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tis not he whose busy pate Can dive into the deep intrigues of state ; That can the great leviathan control, Manage and rule't, as if he were its soul : The wisest king thus gifted was, And yet did not in these true wisdom place. Who then is by the wise...

A Collection of Miscellanies: Consisting of Poems and Essays, Discourses and ... - Page 49
by John Norris - 1717 - 319 pages
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Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Including the Whole of ..., Volume 2

Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 442 pages

...The wisest king thus gifted was, And yet did not in these true wisdom place. Who then is by the wise man meant ? He that can want all this, and yet can be content. THE IMPATIENT. WHAT envious laws are those of Fate, Which fix a gulf (bless 'd souls) 'twixt us and...

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