You have no scruple about meddling now.
You have excited this rebellious temper among your flocks, and now you foment it.

You would be better employed in teaching them how to obey than in teaching me how to govern." He was much incensed against his nephew Grafton, whose signature stood next to that of Sancroft, and said to the young man, with great asperity, "You know nothing about religion; you care nothing about it; and yet, forsooth, you must pretend to have a conscience." "It is true, sir," answered Grafton, with impudent frankness, "that I have very little conscience: but I belong to a party which has a great deal." [526] Bitter as was the King's language to the petitioners, it was far less bitter that that which he held after they had withdrawn.

He had done, he said, far too much already in the hope of satisfying an undutiful and ungrateful people.

He had always hated the thought of concession: but he had suffered himself to be talked over; and now he, like his father before him, had found that concession only made subjects more encroaching.

He would yield nothing more, not an atom, and, after his fashion, he vehemently repeated many times, "Not an atom." Not only would he make no overtures to the invaders, but he would receive none.