Note 485 — BOOK XI[336] (continued 2)
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
CHATEAUBRIAND, Moïse, Act III. sc. IV.-B.
"Where the great are concerned, I am nowise suspect: Their misfortunes alone win from me my respect. I hate this King Pharaoh, while glory's his own; Let him fall: on the instant I honour his crown: By reason of grief he is king in my eyes; I bow down before tears as great magistracies; Misfortune's sad courtier, etc."—T.