Other Sonnets vpon other Subiects, 16

IT is no easie skill to rule aright;
The Helm of State one Hand can hardly sway:
They must needs vse the left, as wel as right,
That in a right Course, wil a Kingdome stay:
For, like as Hercules (as Poets faine)
Was gotten in a Night as long as two,
Because that Phebus did his horses raigne
Till Iupiter that Deed, did throughly Do:
So, a right Staseman must of force be bred
In along Night of Silence, and sad thought;
And in deep skill should hide his subtil Head.
Til his skill be Herculean as it ought;
And then, though Atlas on him Heu'n impose,
He that huge Burden, staidly under-goes!