The great Qualities of the Cardinal.

ALL the Artifices of the Queen mother made no other Impression upon his Majesty, then to carry him to recollect and reiterate in his mind the Fidelity of the Cardinals services, the great affection wherewith he had behaved himself, in all occasions where his Majesties glory was concern'd, the good success which ac∣companied his Conduct of his Armies, the Incomparable Prudence wherewith he was endued, with which he did penetrate into what was to come, and foresaw ef∣fects in their Causes, and accordingly prepared Remedies before they hapned, the indefatigable vigilance which made him so intent both day and on the affairs of State, that though he gave Orders in the greatest, yet he never forgot the least, and that prodigious promptitude, which produc'd effects, from resolution in Counsel, before one knew whether it were resolv'd on or no: These were those just considerations which the King recalled into his mind, to oppugne the divers Artifices of the Cardinals enemies; and one may say, they did so fix his Majesty against those violences with which they would as it were shake him, that to the end he might evade those perpetual instances which the Queen-mother hourly made to him, he resolved to go to pass away some days at Verfilles. In effect, that was the cause of the King's going from Paris, and the Queen-mother could get no other satisfaction from his Majesty, then that of Respect and hearty affection by his taking leave of her.