Believe me, the secret traitor will not dare to absent himself from an expurgation so solemn, lest his very absence should be matter of suspicion.

There will we place our sable man of counsel, and if his art can detect the villain, leave me to deal with him." "My liege," said Neville, with the frankness of an English baron, "beware what work you begin.

Here is the concord of our holy league unexpectedly renewed--will you, upon such suspicion as a negro slave can instil, tear open wounds so lately closed?
Or will you use the solemn procession, adopted for the reparation of your honour and establishment of unanimity amongst the discording princes, as the means of again finding out new cause of offence, or reviving ancient quarrels?
It were scarce too strong to say this were a breach of the declaration your Grace made to the assembled Council of the Crusade." "Neville," said the King, sternly interrupting him, "thy zeal makes thee presumptuous and unmannerly.

Never did I promise to abstain from taking whatever means were most promising to discover the infamous author of the attack on my honour.

Ere I had done so, I would have renounced my kingdom, my life.