Clutched at the throats of all these bloody princes.

Hild. Yea, Peter.

Pet. Ha, ha, thou, too, hast a hate for kings.

Hild. Whoever saw a monk who loved a king?

The king was ever our natural enemy.

But see in me no heaven-brooding monk,

But many men in one, a pope, a king,

A fierce ambition, like a burning flame,

To put these times and peoples ’neath my feet,