XXXVII.

Who will revenge his death? or who will call

Those to account that thought and wrought his fall?

The heirs of slain kings we see are often so

Transported with the joy of what they get,

That they revenge and obsequies forget;

Nor will against such men the people go,

Because he's now dead to whom they should show

Love in that act. Some kings, by vice, being grown

So needy of subjects' love, that of their own

They think they lose if love be to the dead prince shown.

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