And from this time began an intrigue between his majesty and a junto of ministers, maliciously bent against me, which broke out in less than two months, and had like to have ended in my utter destruction.

从此陛下和一群大臣之间的勾心斗角，我怀有恶意，不到两个月就爆发，可能以我的彻底毁灭告终。