Crossword-Solution: POLITICK 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

But Plato seemed too frugally politick, who allowed no larger monument than would contain four heroick verses, and designed the most barren ground for sepulture: though we cannot commend the goodness of that sepulchral ground which was set at no higher rate than the mean salary of Judas.

Wise emblem of our politick world, Sage Snayl, within thine own self curl'd, Instruct me softly to make hast, Whilst these my feet go slowly fast.

Their politick would-be’s do but show themselves asses That other men’s calling invade; We only converse with pots and with glasses, Let the rulers alone with their trade; The Lyon of the Tower There estates does devour, Without showing law for’t or reason; Into prison we get For the crime called debt, Where our bodies and brains we do season, And that is ne’er taken for murder or treason.

Charles the Second stands on’s guard, Like a good politick King; The Phanaticks ought to be abhor’d For all their flattering: Let them cry they love the King, Their faults I will discover; Charles the First they murdered, And so they would the other.

But I never meddled much in politick affairs, except at this time, when I prohibited Andrew Pringle, my son, from offering to be a member of Parliament, notwithstanding the great bargain that he would have had of the place.