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The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called gods.

— James I of England

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Beware in making your sporters your councellors, and delight not to keepe ordinarily in your companie comedians or balladines.

Basilikon Doron (1599)

I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.

A gentleman I could never make him, though I could make him a lord.

To make the plough go before the horse.

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

A Counterblaste to Tobacco (1604)

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