That, if you dared to set your foot in Paris,
You should be held the cause of all commotions
That should from thence ensue? and yet you came.

_Gui._ Sir, will you please with patience but to hear me?

_King._ I will; and would be glad, my lord of Guise,
To clear you to myself.

_Gui._ I had been told,
There were in agitation here at court,
Things of the highest note against religion,
Against the common properties of subjects,
And lives of honest well-affected men;
I therefore judged,--

_King._ Then you, it seems, are judge
Betwixt the prince and people? judge for them,
And champion against me?

_Gui._ I feared it might be represented so,
And came resolved,--

_King._ To head the factious crowd.

_Gui._ To clear my innocence.

_King._ The means for that,
Had been your absence from this hot-brained town,
Where you, not I, are king!--