Remember how you lost the mildest of princes and the justest of fathers, while in his place was put a tyrant and an assassin set up; how your rights were confiscated; how everything was plague-stricken; how the country was stained with infamies; how the yoke was planted on your necks, and how, your free will was forfeited! And now all this is over; for ye see the criminal stifled in his own crimes, the slayer of his kin punished for his misdoings.

What man of but ordinary wit, beholding it, would account this kindness a wrong?
What sane man could be sorry that the crime has recoiled upon the culprit?
Who could lament the killing of a most savage executioner?
Or bewail the righteous death of a most cruel despot?
Ye behold the doer of the deed; he is before you.

Yea, I own that I have taken vengeance for my country and my father.

Your hands were equally bound to the task which mine fulfilled.

What it would have beseemed you to accomplish with me, I achieved alone.