Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.

Tyrannie.

—Next to Tyrannie Comes warres, discention, ciuill mutinie. Ch. Middl.

In greatest wants t'inflict the greatest woe, This is the worst that tyrannie can show. Idem.

Hell haleth tyrants downe to death amaine, Was neuer yet, nor shall bee cruell deede Vnquited left, but had as cruell meed. M. of M.

— No tyrant commonly Liuing ill can kindly die, But either trayterously surprizde Doth coward poyson quayle their breath, Or their people haue deuizde, Or theyr Guard to seeke their death. Tho. Kyd.

It is an hell in hatefull vassallage, Vnder a tyrant to consume ones age, A selfe-shauen Dennis, or an Nero fell, Whose cursed Courts with bloud and incest swell: An Owle that flyes the light of Parliaments And state assemblies, iealous of th'intents Of Priuate tongues, who for a pastime sets His Peeres at oddes, and on their furie whets, Who neither fayth, honour, nor right respects. Idem.