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Poesy! thou sweet'st content / / That e'er Heaven to mortals lent, / / Though they as a trifle leave thee / / Whose dull thoughts cannot conceive thee; / / Though thou be to them a scorn / / That to nought but earth are born; / / Let my life no longer be / / Than I am in love with thee. / / GEORGE WITHER.
There are two things that to a marvellous degree bring people under / subjection -- moral and corporeal fear. The most dissolute are held in / restraint by the influence of moral worth, and there are few who would / engage in a quarrel, if they were certain that defeat or death would be / the consequence. Cromwell obtained, and we may add, maintained his / ascendency over the people of England, by his earnest and continually / directed efforts towards these two important ends. His court was a rare / example of irreproachable conduct, from which all debauchery and / immorality were banished; while such was his deep and intimate, though / mysterious, acquaintance with every occurrence throughout the / Commonwealth, its subjects had the certainty of knowing that, sooner or / later, whatever crimes they committed would of a surety reach the ear of / the Protector.