Ten years the world upon him falsely smiled,
Sheathing in fawning looks the deadly knife
Long aimed at his head; that so beguiled
It more securely might bereave his life:
Then threw him to a scaffold from a throne.
Much doctrine lies under this little stone.

The Faithful Shepherd (1648) 'The Fall'; translation of G. B. Guarini's Il pastor fido, 1589