At an hour's notice I can ruin your plans, and send you to a dungeon! You are like a fish caught in a net not yet drawn.

It thrusts its nose this way and that, and touches the mesh, but is slow to take the alarm until the net is drawn--and then it is too late.

So it is with you, and so it is,' he added, falling into the ecstatic mood which marked him at times, and left me in doubt whether he were all knave or in part enthusiast, 'with all those who set themselves against St.Peter and his Church!' 'I have heard you say much the same of the King of France,' I said derisively.
'You trust in him ?' he retorted, his eyes gleaming.

'You have been up there, and seen his crowded chamber, and counted his forty-five gentlemen and his grey-coated Swiss?
I tell you the splendour you saw was a dream, and will vanish as a dream.

The man's strength and his glory shall go from him, and that soon.