1 68 The Duchess of Newcastle 



LXXV 



In some discourse which I had with My Lord 

 concerning princes and their subjects; I declared 

 that I had observed great princes were not like the 

 sun, which sends forth out of it self rays of light, and 

 beams of heat ; effects that did both glorifie the sun, 

 and nourish and comfort sublunary creatures; but 

 their glory and splendor proceeded rather from the 

 ceremony which they received from their subjects. 

 To which My Lord answered, that subjects were so 

 far from giving splendor to their princes, that all 

 the honours and titles, in which consists the chief 

 splendor of a subject, were principally derived from 

 them; for, said he, were there no princes, there would 

 be none to confer honours and titles upon them. 



LXXVI 



My Lord entertaining one time some gentlemen with 

 a merry discourse, told them that he would not keep 

 them company except they had done and suffered 

 as much for their king and country as he had. They 

 answered, that they had not a power answerable to 

 My Lord's. M}^ Lord replied, they should do their 

 endeavour according to their abilities : No, said they, 

 if we did, we should be like your self, lose all, and get 

 but little for our uains. 



LXXVII 



I being much grieved that My Lord for his loyalty 

 and honest service had so many enemies, used some- 

 times to speak somewhat sharply of them; but he 

 gently reproving me, said, / should do like experienced 

 seamen, and as they either turn their sails with the wind. 



