Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

La grammaire qui sait régenter jusqu'aux rois.

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Act II, sc. vi. An apparent reference to Sigismund I, at the Council of Constance, 1414, said to a prelate who had objected to his Majesty's grammar, "Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam" (I am the king of Rome, and am above grammar).

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