He abused the general right and left, and I almost thought, at one time, that he would have struck him.

He told him that he had disgraced the Russian name, by not treating you with proper hospitality, and especially by placing you in a miserable cell without a fire.
"'What will the King of Sweden think ?' he said.

'He treats his prisoners with kindness and courtesy, and after Narva gave them a banquet, at which he himself was present.

The Duke of Croy writes to me, to say he is treated as an honoured guest rather than as a prisoner, and here you disgrace us by shutting your prisoner in a cheerless cell, although he is wounded, and giving him food such as you might give to a common soldier.

The Swedes will think that we are barbarians.