A Many Headed Beast: "Populo Servire Difficile"

     My reading from Brevissima today was #266, "Populo Servire Difficile" ("It is Difficult to Serve the People"), from Jean Girard (1518-1586), Stichostratia, 1.68. The Latin text reads:

Qui populo servit, placet ille haud omnibus aeque,

Multorum capitum bestia quod populus.

Roughly translated into English:

"Who serves the people does please everyone at all equally,

For the populace is a beast of many heads."