True, and "make sure to put the one first waving the banner of independence in his place". (By which he certainly didn't mean AW or Ferdinand.) Or, as Fritz himself would describe it: "You know how carefully I sought your friendship; that I spared neither caresses, nor what can be called advances, to win your heart."

BTW, it just occurs to me that if Heinrich hadn't been married by that point already, then Bentinck could have tried not to not just seduce but to marry him because then Prussia would have been obliged to push her claims against her ex husband for her territory. But since he was married, and couldn't divorce Mina without getting Fritz' permission first, which AW just had failed at getting re: Sophie von Pannewitz/Voss, there was no chance of that.