I have laughed a good deal at them: here and there occur coarse things (GROSSIERETES), and platitudes of the insipid kind: but there are traits of good pleasantry.

I shall not go fencing with goose-quills against this sycophant.

As Mazarin said, 'Let the French keep singing, provided they let us keep doing.'" [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xxiii.

319-321: "Potsdam, 2d March, 1775," and "25th March" following.
See PREUSS, iii.

275, iv.