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SIR, I am exceedingly beholding to you, for remembring mee; and for the good newes you have so liberally acquainted me withall. If the—loved Suger, as well as they love salt; they should have enough of it, never to drinke any thing but Hyppocras; nor to eate any thing but Comfits. Without jea∣sting I vow, these are excellent Rebells; and
their simplicitie is more subtill than all the Art and Maximes of Florence. These Mariners reade Lessons now to the inhabitants of Terra firma; and are become the Paedagouges of Prin∣ces. There is nothing of theirs that troubles mee, but the proposition of their Truce. They should reject it, as a temptation of the devill: and I dare sweare, it was never set a foote, but to gaine time and opportunity: The good will, the Spaniard makes shew to beare them; is the baite they shew upon the hooke they hide, hee seekes not after them, but to catch them; and he makes shew of kindnesse; because hee could doe no good with force. Though I have not read the Booke you spake to me of; yet I doubt not of its worth and goodnesse; I know the Authour is a man of great learning and experience, and one that hath beene brought up at the feete of Gamaliel; I meane of—: who no doubt hath acquainted him with all the Mysteries of our state. For my selfe, it must needes be that I speake but at hap hazard of this matter: for it would be a mira∣cle, if by living in the woods, I should learne the skill to governe cities; and that I should be a Polititian and a Lawyer, being scarce either a man or a citizen: for to speake truely, if the first be a sociable creature, and the other a mana∣ger of some part of the common wealth: I see not in the estate I am in, how I can justly pre∣tend to either of these two qualities. In favour therefore of Mounsieur—I yeeld up my right in all the good I receive from you; and in all
the praises you give me, as things that much more belong to him than mee. Admire as much as you will, his subtiltie; but yet make some reckoning of my freenesse; and give him that which I leave him; but yet keepe for mee, that wich you cannot take from mee, without doing mee wrong: I meane your good-will; which ought to be the prize of my passion, and of the fidelity, with which I shall be all my life,
Sir,
Your, &c.
At Balzac, 10. Iune 1630.