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How is it , then , that thou hast run away from thy king ? Were it not that I hope thou mayest do me more service , I would strike thee now , at one blow , to the ground . -LCB- 144 -RCB- CHR . I was born , indeed , in your dominions , but your service was hard , and your wages such as a man could not live on , `` for the wages of sin is death '' -LSB- Rom 6:23 -RSB- ; therefore , when I was come to years , I did , as other considerate persons do , look out , if , perhaps , I might mend myself . Apollyon 's flattery APOL . There is no prince that will thus lightly lose his subjects , neither will I as yet lose thee ; but since thou complainest of thy service and wages , be content to go back : what our country will afford , I do here promise to give thee . CHR .