CHAP. III. Of some other Kings which have been depo∣sed from their Crowns.
THe Ancients have given us a Rose for the Emblem of beauty, because its co∣lour fades as soon as it is blown. The Moon because of its changes, and glass because of its brittleness, and many other such things, to shew us that those things which touch most our sight, ought not to touch our Souls, and that the best of them causeth our pitty, as well as our admiration and envy. Those that will but examine narrowly our conditions, will find that nature hath always been the same in all Men, that they are distinguisht but by qua∣lities and titles; that death makes them all equals, and that in which their grandeur is seen, often casteth them into miseries; in ef∣fect, we often see, that Fortune is so fickle to Kings, that the Man that found a Crown, had reason to say; O much more glorious then thou