Quotation by George Chapman

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed.
George Chapman (c. 1559–1634), British dramatist, poet, translator. repr. In Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (1910). Bussy d'Ambois, in Bussy d'Ambois, act 2, sc. 1, l. 203-4 (1607, rev. 1641).

Addressing Henry III of France, in self-vindication after killing two men in a quarrel.
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