Grace, not Greatnesse, maketh Magistrates glorious. [ 173]
THere was a great King,* 1.1 (Antigonus by name) that turning and winding his Diadem, said to them that stood by, That if a man knew, what a deal of care and trouble were lapped up, and lodged in it, he would not account it worth the taking up. And there was a Pope,* 1.2 (by name Hadrian the sixth, not the worst Pope) that confes∣sed to his friends, That he lived a happier life, when he was a poor Schoolmaster in Lo∣vayn, than since he was advanced to that high See.* 1.3 Such or the like expressions were made by Henry the fourth of England, lying on his death-bed, upon occasion of his son's removall of the Crown out of his sight. All which signifie thus much, that it is▪ not the high place, nor the great state, that maketh a Magistrate happy; it is not his standing on the higher ground that makes him glorious, but when with Pericles in Plutarch he can say,* 1.4 that he never caused any to wear a mourning gown; and with St. Paul, This is our rejoycing, even the testimony of our conscience; and, That they are pure from the blood of all men: i. e. from shedding innocent blood.