Toward such a trial as I aim at now,

And now demand your special hearing to.

What in this fearful business I have done,

Judge whether lightly or maliciously,—

I, with my own and only flesh and blood,

And proper lineal inheritor!

I swear, had his foretold atrocities

Touch’d me alone, I had not saved myself

At such a cost to him; but as a king,—

A Christian king,—I say, advisedly,