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That Which Concerns The Mystery Of The King's Power Is Not Lawful To Be Disputed; For That Is To Wade Into The Weakness Of Princes, And To Take Away The Mystical Reverence That Belongs Unto Them That Sit In The Throne Of God.

I Can Make A Lord, But Only God Can Make A Gentleman.

If I Were Not A King, I Would Be A University Man; And If It Were So That I Must Be A Prisoner, If I Might Have My Wish, I Would Desire To Have No Other Prison Than That Library [the Bodleian].

The State Of Monarchy Is The Supremest Thing Upon Earth: For Kings Are Not Only God's Lieutenants Upon Earth, And Sit Upon God's Throne, But Even By God Himself They Are Called Gods.

God Gives Not Kings The Stile Of Gods In Vaine, For On His Throne His Sceptre Do They Sway; And As Their Subjects Ought Them To Obey, So Kings Should Feare And Serve Their God Againe.