Your king is not a man who minces matters.

However, threatened men live long, especially when the person who threatens is starting for a journey, from which, as like as not, he may never return.
However, I have had diligent search made for you.

All the houses of bad repute have been examined and their inhabitants questioned.

But there are so many camp-followers and other rabble at present in the town that a hundred men might disappear without our being able to obtain a clew.

I doubted not indeed that your body had been thrown in the river, and that we should never hear more of you.