Public Domain Poetry And Stories - Duty To Tyrants. by Robert Herrick Public domain poetry and public domain stories from the literary greats of yesteryear.
Good princes must be pray'd for; for the bad
They must be borne with, and in rev'rence had.
Do they first pill thee, next pluck off thy skin? Good children kiss the rods that punish sin.
Touch not the tyrant; let the gods alone
To strike him dead that but usurps a throne.
