Let them not unmake their authority.
Let little rivers and small brooks acknowledge
Their spring, and flow no further than their banks.’
“There is another:
‘Else laws resemble cobwebs, whence great bees
Get out by breaking, and small flies stick fast
For weakness.’
“I like this one,” said Miss Anne:
“‘For they be actions rather, and not words,
Which paint out kings and truly in their colors.