As if you did not know the insult you have offered me.
PRINCE.
Princess, would you drive me mad? I offer you an insult?
WILHELMINE.
Have you not heard what sort of a person this learned Laharpe of yours really is?
PRINCE.
Princess, Laharpe is one of the most intelligent of men and possessed of a pretty wit. One might search long among your scholars here in Berlin before finding his equal in cultivation.
WILHELMINE.
He is a wigmaker from Orleans!