The phrase “little more to do” conveys Paine’s attitude toward the king. In England a King hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which, in plain terms, is to [impoverish] the nation. ... A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society ... than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.