To my Lord President de Maisons. LETTER. CXXX.
My Lord,
IT is too great a goodness in you to take the pains to write to me, and to treat me with so much civility, as if I were not before the most oblig'd man in the World to you. I beseech you, and that most humbly and most earnestly not to take trouble on your self any more. You have not for the most part much to acquaint me with; but for my part, besides the obligation of my duty to write to you, the occurrences which from time to time happen here furnish me with something to say to you. Nevertheless, my Lord, I must needs confess, I was infinitely satisfy'd with the last Letter you were pleas'd to send me; and when ever you have such pleasant news to tell me, I dare not refuse the honour you do me in the communication thereof. I am extreamly glad of the great ac∣quaintance and friendship you have, since my departure, made with Mademoiselle de Rambouillet, I understand it no more by your Letters then by hers: shee never writes to me, but shee mentions you, and that with all the affection and esteem due to you. I can∣not, my Lord, but acknowledge it an extraordinary satisfaction to me, that you and Madam de Rambouillet pitty me for the indiscretion I was guilty of, and it shall be a re∣membrancer to me for the future, besides the solemne pro∣testation I lately made to the same purpose to Monsieur