Yet, sure, Mr Milton, whatever you may think of the character of King Charles, you will not still justify his murder ?" "Sir," said Mr Milton, "I must have been of a hard and strange nature, if the vehemence which was imputed to me in my younger days had not been diminished by the afflictions wherewith it hath pleased Almighty God to chasten my age.

I will not now defend all that I may heretofore have written.

But this I say, that I perceive not wherefore a king should be exempted from all punishment.

Is it just that where most is given least should be required?
Or politic that where there is the greatest power to injure there should be no danger to restrain?
But, you will say, there is no such law.

Such a law there is.