Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
But love's a malady without a cure.
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.