Perhaps partly because some—by no means all, Puritans attacked plays as immoral distractions, quotations from dramatic material in sermons have not been extensively researched. The phrase ‘a kingdom from a horse’ quickly became widely known. When preachers included it in their sermons, they expected their audience to recognize the allusion to Shakespeare’s play. John Flavel refers precisely to Richard III and the scene in his pamphlet The Fountain of Life (1673) when he replaces ‘horse’ with ‘Christ’:

中文翻译：

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几本宗教小册子中的“马的王国”

也许部分原因是因为一些（绝不是全部）清教徒对戏剧的攻击是一种不道德的干扰，对布道中戏剧性材料的引用还没有得到广泛研究。“马的王国”一词很快就广为人知。当传道人将其纳入讲道时，他们希望听众能认识到莎士比亚戏剧的典故。约翰·弗拉维尔（John Flavel）准确地指的是理查德三世（Richard III）和他的小册子《生命之泉》（1673）中的场景，当时他用“基督”代替“马”：