The King believes that Englishmen must be "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface
I believe the answer is A
Synonyms: Verb. break up, decouple, disassociate, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint, dissever, dissociate, disunite, divorce, part, ramify, resolve, separate, sever, split, sunder, uncouple, unlink, unyoke.