—our duties
Are to your throne and state, children and servants,
Which do but what they should, in doing every thing
Fiefs to your love and honour.
My esteem for these critics inclines me to believe that they cannot be much pleased with these expressions fiefs to love, or fiefs to honour, and that they have proposed this alteration rather because no other occured to them, than because they approved of it. I shall therefore propose a bolder change, perhaps with no better success, but sua cuique placent. I read thus,
—our duties
Are to your throne and state, children and servants
Which do but what they should, in doing nothing,
Save toward your love and honour.
We do but perform our duty when we contract all our views to your service, when we act with no other principle than regard to your love and honour.