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Divine Right
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The greatest earthly Monarch hath no power,
To keep his throne one minute of an hour,
(Use all the means and policies he can)
If God will give it to another man. . . .
Nor is there any man so mean but he
When God shall please an Emperor may be.
Some, from the pot-kiln, from the Sheepcote, come
He raised hath, great Princes to become:
Yea He o'er heav'n and earth hath rear'd his Throne,
That was on earth the most despised one.
George Wither, Emblems, 4.15
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