Essay

 1        9|          no envy; and therefore kings are not envied, but by kings.
 2        9|    kings are not envied, but by kings. Nevertheless it is to be
 3        9|     ministers, rather than upon kings, and estates themselves.
 4       13|        fast upon the majesty of kings. A numerous nobility causeth
 5       13| possession of honor. Certainly, kings that have able men of their
 6       14|        the band of sovereignty, kings begin to be put almost out
 7       18|         commonly is the case of kings; who, being at the highest,
 8       18|         great. We see also that kings that have been fortunate
 9       18|         not to endure the mean.~Kings have to deal with their
10       18|      During that triumvirate of kings, King Henry the Eighth of
11       18|     deal with stout and haughty kings, William Rufus, Henry the
12       18|         All precepts concerning kings, are in effect comprehended
13       19|    conjunction, of counsel with kings, and the wise and politic
14       19|       politic use of counsel by kings: the one, in that they say
15       19|         a secret of empire; how kings are to make use of their
16       19|     practice of France, in some kings’ times, hath introduced
17       19|     remedy. Nay, the majesty of kings, is rather exalted than
18       26|  observe, how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon
19       28|        emperor, which the great kings of the world after borrowed;
20       30|        constantly. They dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to
21       35|        do good; the approach to kings and principal persons; and
22       40|         the decay of customs of kings or states, which ebb or
23       43|         an advantage to rising. Kings in ancient times (and at
24       50|     greatness of his own house. Kings had need beware, how they
25       50|       motions of factions under kings ought to be, like the motions (
26       52|       form due, in civility, to kings and great persons, laudando
27       55|    happy thing in a state, when kings and states do often consult