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Blame the Reward of Princes

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Among disasters that dissension brings,
This not the least is, which belongs to kings:
If wars go well, each for a part lays claim;
If ill, then kings, not soldiers, bear the blame.

Published in Hesperides
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