Many in Savile's audience thought of King Charles II mainly as a lover of pleasure, but Savile tries to convince them to excuse King Charles of his faults. Savile uses few strategies such as allusion, diction and evoking authority of God to provoke the King's subjects to believe Charles was a good king. The argument lacks effectiveness because of his repetition and how he disassociates himself from the argument.

One of Savile's strategies, allusion, plays a key role in his argument. He uses rhetorical and biblical allusions such as, "Should nobody throw a stone at his faults but those who are free from them." This strategy tries to evoke sympathy from the audience in a Christian way. But, this statement is controversial because a person can criticize something or someone even if they have not experienced it. Also, Savile states anyone who wishes to criticize the king must...