Already we are threatened with a second Fronde.

It needs but such events as these to bring my family into prominence and make it the butt for the ridicule that malcontents but wait an opportunity to slur it with.

This affair of Andrea's will lend itself to a score or so of lampoons and pasquinades, all of which will cast an injurious reflection upon my person and position.

That, Monsieur, is, methinks, sufficient evil to suffer at your hands.

The late Cardinal would have had you broken on the wheel for less.