For sword and sceptre comes to kings at once.
Conan. The kingliest point is to affect but right.
Mordred. Weak is the sceptre’s hold that seeks but right.
The care whereof hath danger’d many crowns.
As much as water differeth from the fire,
So much man’s profit jars from what is just.
A free recourse to wrong doth oft secure
The doubtful seat, and plucks down many a foe
The sword must seldom cease: a sovereign’s hand
Is scantly safe, but whiles it smites. Let him