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A50474	Cardinal Mazarin's letters to Lewis XIV, the present King of France, on his love to the Cardinal's niece together with his secret negotiation with Don Lewis D'Haro, chief minister to the King of Spain.; Correspondence. English. Selections	Mazarin, Jules, 1602-1661.; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.; Méndez de Haro, Luis, 1598-1661.	1691 (1691)	Wing M1540; ESTC R5209	91,866	304

the Queen has been pleased to write to me on this occasion they have fresh informations that this Prince and the Marquess de Caracene had assured their Friends that they should soon have an occasion to put in execution what they had agreed on but that they expected Monsieur the Count de Harcourt should give 'em a Writing in which he should engage himself in the Prince's Interests which Writing their Majesties know the Count has given which has oblig'd his Majesty to command him near his Person It will be fit to demand an express Audience of Don Lewis to entertain him on this point and that you tell him you have order to insist immediately on some resolution in relation to the Prince For his Majesty considering the Conduct he continues to hold in a time wherein he believes all things adjusted touching his Interests would speedily know what he might expect that he may resolve according to the acceptance or refusal which he shall make of what has been determin'd at Paris on what respects him and I entreat you to let me know the answer to Morrow Morning at farthest that I may give an account to their Majesties of it by the return of Monsieur le Tellier's Messenger LETTER XXIII An earnest Letter from Cardinal Mazarin to Lewis XIV the present King of France to disswade him from loving his Niece Her inclination her conduct her designs Assiduity of the King in writing to her and of the passion he has for her Her small affection for the Cardinal His Complaints His Remonstrances The difference there is between the Infanta and his Niece Of the Marriage of the Duke de Richlieu Reasons against the Marriage of the King with his Niece The Cardinal's displeasures To the King From St. John de Luz August the 28th 1659. LEt me entreat you to be perswaded once for all that I cannot render you a greater and more important service than to speak to you with the liberty you have permitted me hitherto in matters relating to your welfare for which none of your Majesties Servants can be more earnest and solicitous I shall begin with speaking to that part of your Letter of the 13th of August which relates to the deference the person in question has for me and the other points you have signified to me in her favour I am not surprised at what you write seeing the passion you have for her as is ordinary with others hinders you from discerning the truth and I must answer you that were it not for this passion you would agree with me that this Person is not capable of Friendship that she has an ambition without bounds a restless and awkard Spirit a contempt for all the World no prudence in her conduct and an inclination to all Extravagancies that * The Sequel has shew'd he knew his Niece's humour perfectly she is more foolish than ever since she has had the Honour to see you at St. John d' Angely and that instead of receiving your Letters twice a Week she receives them now every day In fine you would see as well as I that she has a thousand defects and not one quality which may render her worthy your affection You testifie in your Letter to believe that the opinion I have of her proceeds from the ill Offices done her Is it possible you can believe I am so penetrant and able in great affairs and that I cannot see a jot into those of my Family Can I doubt of the intentions of this Person in my respect when I see she never forgets to do the contrary in every thing I desire that she turns into ridicule the advices I give for her conduct that she glories in that which in the sight of all the World prejudices her Honour and mine that she will needs become the Master and change all the orders I give in my House and that in fine despising all the diligences I have used with so great love application and address to bring her into a good course and make her wise she persists in her follies and will be thus exposed to the laughter of all the World who make it a continual Subject of Comedies as will appear from the Papers I keep by me in which you may see the sentiments of all those who discourse on this matter which is at present the Enterainment of the best Wits of all Nations Did the ill conduct of this Person prejudice only her self and even me I might dissemble it but this evil every day increasing and this Commerce doing an irreparable injury to the Glory and Quiet of my Master it is impossible for me to suffer it and I shall be at length constrained to take resolutions by which every one may be fully convinced that when the matter concerns your service I sacrifice all And if I find my self so unhappy to perceive the passion you have for this Creature blinds your reason I must take up the design I signified to you from Cadillac for in short there is no power which can deprive me of disposing how I please of my Family and you will be one day the first in commending me for the service I have done you which will be certainly the greatest of all seeing by my resolution I have put you into a condition of being happy and with this the most Glorious and Compleatest King on earth Besides mine Honour which Jesus Christ who is the Example of Humility said that he would not give to another Honorem meum nemini dabo obliges me to defer no longer the doing what I ought to preserve it I return to the Person who holds her self more certain than ever to dispose entirely of your Affection after the new promises you have made her at St. John d'Angely and I know that if you be oblig'd to marry she pretends to make the Princess that shall espouse you miserable all her life which cannot happen without your being so too and exposing your self to a thousand vexatious disasters For you cannot expect the blessing of Heaven if you do nothing for your part to deserve it Since the last visit which I ever believ'd would be fatal to you and for which reason I endeavoured to hinder it you have begun again to write to her every day not Letters but entire Volumes imparting to her the most minute circumstances of Affairs and placing in her the greatest confidence to the exclusion of every body else So that all your time is taken up in reading hers and writing yours And that which is most incomprehensible is that you practise all imaginable expedients to heat your Passion whilst you are at the Eve of your Marriage Thus do you your self labour to make your self the most miserable of all Men there being no condition more intollerable than a Marriage made against ones Stomach But pray tell me I beseech you what personage does this Girl pretend to act after you be married Has she so far forgot her Duty to