monarch (n.)
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not misbecome a monarch.
With ravish'd ears
The monarch hears;
Assumes the god,
Affects to nod,
And seems to shake the spheres.
When love could teach a monarch to be wise,
And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune;
He had not the method of making a fortune.
A morsel for a monarch.
I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute.
Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains;
They crowned him long ago
On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,
With a diadem of snow.
Come, thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat,
While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat.
A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.
The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway,
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's,
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That in the course of justice none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.
