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This Maxim still

Shall bo my Guide {A Prince can do no ilU) In spight of Slaves, his Genius lot him trust ; For Hcav'n nc'er mado a King, but madc him just.

(Banks, Vertut Betray'd. Ce sont les derniers vers de la pièce, dits par le roi.)

3. Sir Charles Kinglove : « Oh, did he want as many drops of blood from the dcar Centre of my life, my heart, as he does pounds from my now happy store, should I not freely bleed ? Strong in my zeal beyond Mortalily, wilh my own hands, 1 'd crush the trembling Lump, untill the Noble Loyal Dcbt was paid. » (D'Urfey, The Royalist, acte V, se. 1.)

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