20/32 So here I am, ready to cross into Spain the moment you set out for Paris. Mazarin has taken it into his head to imitate Richelieu: off with the head rather than let the state feed the stomach." "So that is why De Beaufort, thinking me to be the guilty man, sought me out and demanded the paper? But oh! wise poet, did you not hear me tell you never to sign your name to anything save poetry ?" "It might have been a poem. |