For you must be aware that I am no rebel." "H'm." "Though, to be sure, I cannot help my tastes." "You may suffer for them, none the less." "I am ready to pay for them.

Since your Majesty has taken a fancy to this young man--" "Who, by the way, has maltreated a whole company of my guards." "-- Permit me, as his guardian, to ransom him.

He has large estates." "You forget, sir," exclaimed the King haughtily, "that I am punishing him.

Do you entertain the idea of bribing me ?" "I forget nothing, sire.

I even remember that this is England, and not Holland." "My lord," said William, turning to the Earl of Marlborough, "I pray you dispose of the recruit as you think fit.