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BAD PRINCES PILL THEIR PEOPLE by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: LIKE THOSE INFERNALL DEITIES WHICH EATE
Last Line: AND LEAVE THEIR SUBJECTS BUT THE STARVED WARE.
Subject(s): COURTS & COURTIERS; ROYAL COURT LIFE; ROYALTY; KINGS; QUEENS;
Like those infernall Deities which eate
The best of all the sacrificed meate;
And leave their servants, but the smoak & sweat:
So many Kings, and Primates too there are,
Who claim the Fat, and Fleshie for their share,
And leave their subjects but the starved ware.



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