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The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - What Makes A King.

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Chi pennelli have e colori.     He who hath brush and colours, and chance-wise             Doth daub, befouling walls and canvases,             Is not a painter; but, unhelped by these,             He who in art is masterful and wise.     Cowls and the tonsure do not make a friar;             Nor make a king wide realms and pompous wars;             But he who is all Jesus, Pallas, Mars,             Though he be slave or base-born, wears the tiar.     Man is not born crowned like the natural king             Of beasts, for beasts by this investiture             Have need to know the head they must obey;     Wherefore a commonwealth fits men, I say,             Or else a prince whose worth is tried and sure,             Not proved by sloth or false imagining.

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