Book II, 37: On Rehoboam

People have Balances; wherein to weigh
Their new-crown'd Princes; which can soone bewray
Their native worth: Some counterpoyse th'allow:
Vnhappy Israel had not weights enow,
To weigh thy Fingers Heads can never rest
In peace, when their poore members are opprest:
Had thy unlucky Fingers weigh'd no more
Then thy light Iudgement; had thy judeement bore
But halfe the burthen of thy Fingers weight,
Thou hadst bin prosp'rous, both in Crowne, and State:
The Lyon's knowne by's Paw; The people spends
Their Judgement of a Prince by's Fingers ends.