De longue main, Ranuce-Ernest IV, qui trouvait rarement de cruelles, était piqué de ce que la vertu de la duchesse, bien connue à la cour, n’avait pas fait une exception en sa faveur.
For a long time past Ranuccio-Ernesto IV, who rarely encountered a cruel fair, had felt it to be an affront that the Duchessa's virtue, which was well known at court, had not made an exception in his favour.