Which you may challenge as a king, parts from you,)
'Twas never read in holy writ, or moral,
That subjects on their loyalty, were obliged
To love their sovereign's vices; your grace, sir,
To such an undeserver is no virtue.[72]
There are also passages in The Emperor of the East which seem to attack the Government of the day and its agents.[73] I will quote the chief of these as a specimen of honest indignation:
Pulcheria. How I abuse
This precious time! Projector, I treat first
Of you and your disciples; you roar out,
All is the king's, his will above his laws;