Why should you evade it, sire?
What is changed?
Charles wants to-day what we were not willing to grant him ten years ago; but that was foreseen and provided against.

You are the ally of England, sire, and not of Charles II.

It was doubtless wrong, from a family point of view, to sign a treaty with a man who had cut off the head of the king your father's brother-in-law, and to contract an alliance with a parliament which they call yonder the Rump Parliament; it was unbecoming, I acknowledge, but it was not unskillful from a political point of view, since, thanks to that treaty, I saved your majesty, then a minor, the trouble and danger of a foreign war, which the Fronde--you remember the Fronde sire ?"--the young king hung his head--"which the Fronde might have fatally complicated.

And thus I prove to your majesty that to change our plan now; without warning our allies, would be at once unskillful and dishonest.

We should make war with the aggression on our side, we should make it, deserving to have it made against us, and we should have the appearance of fearing it whilst provoking it, for a permission granted to five hundred men, to two hundred men, to fifty men, to ten men, is still a permission.