I am out of the frying-pan into the fire.

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'From the Duke's breach of duty, my act shall receive

The highest-flown doctrines of prerogative;

Plantagenets, Tudors, nay, Stuarts I'll quote,

And what law cannot prove, shall be proved by a vote.

'To marry, unmarry, son, brother, or heir,

Has been always his right, our good King shall declare;

Though as far from the truth as the north from the south,

It is not the first lie we have put in his mouth.