Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripened beauties of the north.

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act1, sc.4, l.134^5.

Oft seldan hw×r ×fter leodhyre lytle hwile bongar bugeth. It is very rare that, after the fall of a prince, the deadly spear rests for long.

-Anonymous
c.800  Beowulf, l.2029^31.

Le Poe'  te est semblable au prince des nue¤  es Qui hante la tempe"  te et se rit de l'archer; Exile¤   sur le sol au milieu des hue¤  es, Ses ailes de ge¤  ant l'empe"  chent de marcher. The Poet is like that prince of the clouds Who haunts the storms and laughs at the archer; Exiled to the ground in the midst of jeers, Hisgiant wings prevent him from walking.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Les Fleurs du mal,'L'Albatros'ö'Spleen et ide¤  al', no.2.

   And he said,Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus 2:14.

But the Pharisees said,He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 9:34.

Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.

-CharlesV
  Instructions a'   Philippe II son Fils ( Advice To His Son, translated1788). Quoted in G R Elton Renaissance and Reformation,1300^1648 (2nd edn,1968), p.137.

He stood at bold defiance with his prince; Held up the buckler of the people's cause Against the crown, and skulked behind the laws.

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.205^7.

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'The Love Song of  J  Alfred Prufrock' (first published in Poetry magazine, collected in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917).

I know that Ihavethe bodyof a weak and feeble woman, but I havetheheart and stomach of a kingöand a king of England too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

-Elizabeth I
   Address at Tilbury on the approach of the Spanish Armada.

I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales.

-Farjeon, Herbert
  The Picnic.

His Weariness the Prince entered the room in all his tinted orders.

-Firbank, (ArthurAnnesley) Ronald
  The Flower Beneath the Foot, ch.1.

Here lies a prince whose intentions were pure, but who had the misfortune to see all his plans collapse.

-Joseph II
Epitaph for himself. Quoted in T C  W Blanning Joseph II (1994), p.1.

SoTomwent homewith Ellie†and heisnowa great man of science†and knows everything about everything, except whya hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things which no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues. And all this fromwhat helearnt whenhewas awater-baby, underneaththesea. 'And of course,Tom married Ellie?'My dear child, what a silly notion! Don't you know that no one ever marries in a fairy tale, under the rank of a prince or a princess?

-Kingsley, Charles
  The Water Babies, ch.8.

If the husband be a man with whom you have lived on a friendly footing before marriage,öif you did not come inonthewife'sside,öif youdid not sneak intothehouse in her train, but were an old friend in first habits of intimacy before their courtship was so much as thought on,ölook about you† Every long friendship, every old authentic intimacy, must be brought into their office to be new stamped with their currency, as a sovereign Prince calls in the good old money that was coined in some reign before he was born or thought of, to be new marked and minted with the stamp of his authority, before he will let it pass current in the world.

-Lamb, Charles
  Essays of Elia,'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'.

For should thesoul of a prince enterand informthebody of a cobbler, as soon as deserted by his own soul, everyone sees he would be the same person with the prince, accountable only for the prince's actions; but who would say it was the same man?

-Locke,John
  Essay Concerning Human Understanding, bk.2, pt.27, section15.

Nasce da questo una disputa: s'egli e'   meglio essere amato che temuto, o e'   converso. Rispondesi che si vorebbe essere l'uno e l'altro; ma perche¤   egli e'   difficile accozzarli insieme, e'   molto pi  u' sicuro essere temuto che amato, quando si abbia a mancare dell'uno de'due. Thisleadstoa debate: isit better to be loved thanfeared, or the reverse? The answer is that it is desirable to be both, but because it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer fora prince to be feared than loved, if he isto fail in one of the two.

-Machiavelli, Niccolo'   di Bernardo dei
  Il Principe, ch.8 (translated by Alan Gilbert).

'My father is deceased.Come,Gaveston, And share the kingdom with thy dearest friend.' Ah, words that make me surfeit with delight! What greater bliss can hap to Gaveston Than live and be the favourite of a king? Sweet prince, I come; these, these thyamorous lines Might have enforced me to have swum from France, And, like Leander, gasped upon the sand, So thou would'st smile, and take me in thy arms.

-Marlowe, Christopher
c.1591  Gaveston is reading a letter from King Edward. Edward II (published1594), act1, sc.1.

Theyare only safe That know to soothe the prince's appetite And serve his lusts.

-Massinger, Philip
  The Roman  Actor, act1, sc.1.

But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began: The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kissed, Whispering new joys to the mild ocea'  n, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charme'  d wave.

-Milton,John
  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity','The Hymn', stanza 3.

   When I survey the wondrous cross On which the prince of glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.

-Watts, Isaac
  Hymns and Spiritual Songs,'Crucifixion to theWorld, by the Cross of Christ'.