「The strawberry grows underneath the nettle, and wholesome berries thrive and ripen best neighboured by fruit of baser quality. And so the Prince obscured his contemplation under the veil of wildness.」
「For I think the king is but a man, as I am. The element shows to him as it doth to me. His ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man. Therefore when he sees reason of fears, as we do, his fears be of the same relish as ours are. Yet, in reason, no king should possess himself with any appearance of fear, lest he, by showing it, should dishearten his army.」
「Old men forget. Yet all shall be forgot. But he'll remember with advantages what feats he did that day.」
「What rub or what impediment there is why that the naked, poor and mangled peace, dear nurse of arts and joyful births, should not in this best garden of the world, our fertile France, pu…