“Moreover, His Majesty, who loves order and harmony, charges his loving subjects to consider still the statutes of England, which are in force against foreigners, as very good _rules of life_ for the English, which they will do _well_ to follow, but BETTER to break; because every breach of those rules will _work for their good_, and _make them sing louder_ the faithfulness of the King, the goodness of the Prince, and the sweetness of this Gospel proclamation. “Again, as nothing is so displeasing to the King as _legality_, which he hates even more than extortion and whoredom; lest any of his dear people, who have acted the part of a strumpet, robber, murderer, or traitor, should, through the remains of their inbred corruption, and ridiculous _legality_, mourn too deeply for breaking some of their _rules of life_, our gracious Monarch solemnly assures them, that, though he highly disapproves of adultery and murder, yet these breaches of _rules_ are not worse, in his sight, than a wandering thought in speaking to him, or a moment’s dulness in his service: That robbers, therefore, and traitors, adulterers and murderers, who are free-born _Englishmen_, need not be at all uneasy about losing his royal favour; this being utterly impossible, because they always stand complete in the honesty, loyalty, chastity, and charity of the Prince. “Moreover, because the King changes not, whatever lengths the _English_ go in immorality, he will always look upon them as his _pleasant children_, his _dear people_, and men after his own heart; and that, on the other hand, whatsoever lengths foreigners go in pious morality, his gracious Majesty is determined still to consider them as _hypocrites_, _vessels of wrath_, and _cursed children_, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever; because he always views them completely guilty, and absolutely condemned in a certain _robe of unrighteousness_, woven thousands of years ago by one of their ancestors. This dreadful _sanbenito_[276] His Majesty has thought fit to put upon them by imputation; and in it, it is his good pleasure that they should hang in adamantine chains, or burn in fire unquenchable.