Chương 332: 5.ii

On Reverence for your father. In the human understanding of things, royal and imperial appearances and power seem preeminent in the world, and the custom of men is to account those men's actions and their names ahead of all others, as though these things were worthy of veneration and as though worldly power were the highest honor. This attitude is testified in the words of him who said, whether it be to the king as excelling, or to the governors. But despite all this, my wish is as follows, my son.

In the smallness of my understanding, I caution you to render first to him whose son you are special, honorable steadfast loyalty as long as you shall live. Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site. For it is a fixed and unchangeable truth that no one, unless his rank comes to him from his father, can have access to another person at the height of power.

So I urge to you again, most beloved son William, that first of all you love and fear the heavens as I have written above. Then love and cherish your father. Keep in mind that your worldly estate proceeds from his. Recognize that from the most ancient times, men who have loved their fathers and have been truthfully obedient to them have been found worthy to receive the heavens' blessings from those father's hands. - Book I from Lady Dhouda's Liber Manualis