Mark this, then, my child, for this is the reason why I have spoken to you of these things so much at length.

Mark this, then: King Henry is every way entirely unable to bear contradiction, or to be subjected to restraint.

If you wish to win him to any purpose, you must try to draw him from it; you must surround it with difficulties and hinderances.

Therefore show yourself coy and indifferent; that will excite him.

Do not court his looks; then will he seek to encounter yours.