Richard slowly got up from the throne and stood his full height.
'Marquess, you use words I will not hear--' King Philip broke in--'Fair lords, sweet lords--'; but Richard put his hand up, having a kingly way with him which even kings observed.
'Dear sire,'-- his voice was level and cool--'let me say my whole mind before the Marquess recovers his.

The Count of Saint-Pol, for beastly reasons, spoke in my hearing either true things or false things concerning Madame Alois.

If they were true I was ready to die; if they were false I hope he was.

Believing them false, I had punished one man for them before; but he had them from Saint-Pol.

Therefore I called Saint-Pol a liar, and other proper things.