If you seek excuses in your youth, you are no longer so young that you cannot understand what duties are imposed upon you by your dignity.

A cardinal should be irreproachable, a model of moral conduct to all.

And what just cause have we for resentment when temporal princes bestow upon us titles that are little honourable, dispute with us our possessions, and attempt to bend us to their will?
In truth it is we who inflict these wounds upon ourselves, and it is we who occasion ourselves these troubles, undermining more and more each day by our deeds the authority of the Church.

Our guerdon is shame in this world and condign punishment in the next.

May your prudence therefore set a restraint upon these vanities and keep you mindful of your dignity, and prevent that you be known for a gallant among married and unmarried women.