once miscarried upon the like weighty cause, when the least thing
cross her: It Brandenburg should have no issue male, t[unr]e land and
Electorate falls to a Papist, which bodes ill many ways.
In France the scene of Affairs seems strange to us, as if they were
ready to take fire to a Civil Combustion, and yet finde ways to
trouble all the world; they finde the Spaniard play in Arthois and
Flanders; they bridle the Millanois, they take ships at Zea, and
throw Granadoes into forrain Councels. But Monsieur Le Prince
de Condé is playing a game at home, somewhat like Absatoms in the
fence of some, he fores and winds himself up like a Hawks, higher
and higher, which draws all mens eys after him, wondring what
prey is in his eye; Monsieur Servient that blusterd so at the Hague
against us about the business of Munster, hath provoked condé, and is
like to feel his talons: give him his due, he is an eloquent man and
wise, unfortunate onely in this, that he is a mazarinist.
We are told here that Don, the Spanish Ambassador at London.
laughs in his sleeve, that we and you are yet unacorded as to a strict
Union, and that he longs alife to know what you had to propound
to us upon our near Alliance, of noble and heroick importance,
worthy the Actings of free Christiam States, and that his golden
key will not sit the lock of your Cabinet to finde those secrets,
which it seems the world is not worthy to know. I can assure
you some else are as inquisitive as he about it, but they seem to me
to weary themselves at your dore, as the blinde men did at Lots
dore, and could not finde ent[unr]ance.
Our Herring Busses have sent us no ill newes as some thought
and wisht they would, it is time for pickle pantacroon to come amongst
us, for he is counted a Doctor, and one that makes diseases
fly out when he comes within our dores; and no more then needs,
for we have a strange sickness broken out amongst us of late, and
[unr] die of it.
Why should you write as if we leaded mare liberum, you cannot
blame us to have it so if we can, but truly we paid for Herings in
the Kings time, who could less distu[unr]b us then you can; can you
blame us so being Royalists for our own Interest? we could recover
the Cautionary Towns, fish, any thing for a little ghelt, we found
Ambassadors then, kinder natur'd then now, they would give and
take money, but you are grown as subtil as we, where with we are
not well pleased if we could helpt it,
Your Frigats make a great noise abroad and so could we with
ours, but it costs money, and we must first pay debts; which are
vast and infinite; Yet some what we will do, for we cannot suffer