I must confess that I owe Amasis no grudge for his conduct to me, on the contrary I pity him.

You should have heard how he, the powerful king, complained that he could never act according to his own wishes, that even in his most private affairs he was crossed and compromised by the priests and their influence.
[See the parallel in the history of 2000 years later in the reigns of Henry III.

and IV.

confronting the Jesuit influence, finally culminating in assassination.

D.W.] "Had it only depended on himself, he could easily have pardoned the transgression of a law, which I, as a foreigner, could not be expected to understand, and might (though unjustly) esteem as a foolish superstition.