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The king’s servants and the people do know, by common fame, of this received custom and law.
Into the inner court, within which the king’s residence and throne was.
There is one law of his to put him to death: this was decreed, partly to maintain both the majesty and the safety of the king’s person; and partly by the contrivance of the greater officers of state, that few or none might have access to the king but themselves and their friends. And many such severe laws there were in the Persian court, which profane historians relate, as that if any person looked upon one of the king’s concubines, or wore any of his own clothes, or drink of that water which he had appropriated to himself; and other such-like things, he was punished with death.
I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days; which gives me just cause to suspect and fear that the king’s affections are alienated from me, and therefore that neither my person nor petition will be acceptable to him.