You let such books be printed!
You are lost, my dear friend!
If you want money and honour,
With due respect, you must bend.

I had never advised you
In front of the people, without taste,
So to speak about the clergy,
And about any high potentate!

My dear friend, you are lost!
Princes have long arms, I fear;
The clergy has long tongues,
And the people, many a long ear!