12:5
Ministers
Minsisterial ability clearly revealed
Handling troubled times
Soundly advising ignorant leaders
First ministerial duty
Complicated issues seldom settled
Without detailed discussions
Clever cabinets cast out
Winking, whispering turnoats
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Faultlessness, scrupulosity, patriotism, sinophobia:
Esteem’d ministerial attributes
Firmness, respectability, lucidity, persistence:
Moulds good ministers
Approachablity, erudition, energy, decisiveness:
Edifices of office
12:6
Envoys
Loyalty, wisdom, infallibility, eloquence:
Indispensable ambassadorial attributes
Erudition, energy, eloquence, etiquette:
Empowers impressive emissaries
Decorum, timing, delivery, balance:
Define chief envoys
Purity, respect, posipraxis, honesty:
Complement faithful diplomats
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Deliver unto bellicose realms
Cleverest, uncontroversial consuls
Words – flawless, flattering, focused –
Elucidate royal replies
Exemplifying, soundly, diplomacy’s art
Destroys enemy joys
Humanology 