Thomas Dekker: King
Thomas Dekker was English dramatist and pamphleteer. Explore interesting quotes on king.
“BALTHAZAR: Subjects may stumble, when kings walk astray.
Thine acts shall be a new Apocrypha.”
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
“This principle is old, but true as fate,—
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.”
The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act iv. Sc. 4.
Compare: "Cæsar said he loved the treason, but hated the traitor", Plutarch, Life of Romulus.
Compare: "treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all", Robert Greene, Pandosto (1588).