Guy Wetmore Carryl,
The Touching Tenderness of King Karl the First
(1900)
“ And ordered the steward at once to be skewered. (The steward was much unnerved.) “It’s a curious thing,” said the merciful King, “That monarchs so tender are, So oft we’re affected that we have suspected that We are too kind by far.” The moral: The mercy of men and Kings Are apt to be wholly dissimilar things. ”
