
LE PRINCE BON PUISSE
plus qu’il ne veuille.
CE triste delinquant, qui porte dans son coeur
Du perpetré meffait un regret qui le pince:
Appaise à deux genoux la fureur de son Prince:
Et son humble debvoir fait de l’ire vainqueur.
Au suppreme pouvoir ne convient la rigueur:
Du glaive justicier la punissante pince
Effarouche sans fruict la docile Province,
S’au paisible Olivier il ne joinct sa vigueur.
Dieu grand Roy des mortels, droit, & juste tempere
Par clemence, & bonté sa vertu plus severe,
Autrement qui pourroit paroistre devant luy?
Et bien qu’il puisse tout, il ne veut tout luy plaire:
Le Roy doit imiter ce patron debonnaire:
Qui plus se monstre doux, mieux se trouve obey.

Ad Pomponium Ricium Nolanum.[1]
Plus liceat Quam libeat.[2]
That more may be allowed than he actually puts into practice.
QUi circun-fusâ gladium praetendit oliva,
Magnanimi ostendit Principis officium.
Quae Divûm propria est, illi clementia cordi: ut
Illi quem liceat plectere non libeat.
He who stretches out a sword with an olive branch wrapped round it displays the duty of a magnanimous Prince. Clemency, which is the characteristic of the gods, is characteristic of him in his heart, so that he does not wish the man whom he would be allowed to punish to suffer punishment.
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