No mere hireling can go on this service.

You can't expect a mere hireling to serve as a genuine mother, which was really what he was asking.

The impatient Warleader was loudly reminded that as a mere hireling, he, too, would be under their joint command.

Moreover, while a mere hireling might, if detected, have one chance among a thousand of pardon and escape, even that were wanting to you.

He is nothing- amerehireling, yes?