Obadiah Bind - their - kings - in - chains - and -their - nobles - with - links - of - iron.

While nobles are crying in their nights' chains, the squires sing. The terrible politics of the Grail can never touch them. Song is the magic cape.

Maybe they are mummies of kings or queens or nobles, we don't know. But it's definitely someone connected to the royal family.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.