Thomas Dekker: King

Thomas Dekker was English dramatist and pamphleteer. Explore interesting quotes on king.
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“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).