A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
Bio: Frances Boothby was an English playwright, the first woman to have a play produced in London; her tragicomedy Marcelia, or, The Treacherous Friend was performed by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal in 1669.
