...our land, the stores and treasures of the King," began Eliot. "There needs no search for it. It is visible. His profuse expenses, his superfluous feasts,...State, a chronicle of the immensity of his waste of the reserves of the Crown?" He recounted the duke's greed, corruption, and ambition; compared him to Sejanus,...

...pursuer. In summing up the Commons' case, he offered a classical portrayal of the villainous favorite: "His profuse expenses, his superfluous feasts, his...magnificent buildings, his riots, his excesses, what are these but a chronicle of his immense exhausts out of the crown revenues? ... Of all the precedents...

...fierce attack. "He has broken those nerves and sinews of our land, the stores and treasures of the king. There needs no search for it. It is too visible. His profuse expeases, his superfluous feasts, his magnificent buildings, his riots, his excesses, what are they...