Read the quotation from "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty."

"And may each clime with equal gladness see
A monarch's smile can set his subjects free!"

Wheatley uses the word free in these lines to suggest that
the king’s subjects could live without rules.
the king’s subjects had previously been in captivity.
the king will make decisions that are to his subjects’ advantage.
the king has the potential to make his subjects happy.