Then on with my Army into Hanover, and burn and ravage; yes, if it had cost me life, land and people.

Your thoughtless and godless conduct, see what it was leading to.

I intended to employ you in all manner of business, civil, military; but how, after such an action, could I show the face of you to my Officers (soldiers) and other servants ?--The one way of repairing all this is, That you seek, regardless of your very life in comparison, to make the fault good again!' At which words the Crown-Prince mournfully threw himself at his Royal Majesty's feet; begging to be put upon the hardest proofs: He would endure all things, so as to recover his Majesty's grace and esteem.
"Whereupon the King asked him: 'Was it thou that temptedst Katte; or did Katte tempt thee ?' The Crown-Prince without hesitation answered, 'I tempted him.'-- 'I am glad to hear the truth from you, at any rate.'" The Dialogue now branches out, into complex general form; out of which, intent upon abridging, we gather the following points.

King LOQUITUR:-- "How do you like your Custrin life?
Still as much aversion to Wusterhausen, and to wearing your shroud [STERBEKITTEL, name for the tight uniform you would now be so glad of, and think quite other than a shroud!] as you called it ?" Prince's answer wanting.--"Likely enough my company does not suit you: I have no French manners, and cannot bring out BON-MOTS in the PETIT-MAITRE way; and truly regard all that as a thing to be flung to the dogs.

I am a German Prince, and mean to live and die in that character.