Memoirs of Philippe de Mornay

his Angels. Without doubt he shows himself to have been strongly outraged: For from where would this new rage come, if not from new pain, from new loss, from new fear of making a greater one in the future. So much venom would not have come out of his tail, if he had not been well pressed and crushed by the head. It is for us to believe that God will draw good from it, not to limit the time of it, but to pray to him that it please him to give eyes to the blind, to see it, and patience to all to wait for it. I pray you, Sir, to preserve for me the honor of your benevolence, believing me extremely desirous of deserving it by my very humble service; I offer it to you again, and am forever

At Sedan the 22nd of June 1600.

Letter from M. du Plessis to M. de Lomenie Antoine de Loménie, Secretary of State, of the 24th of July 1600.

Sir; I have received yours from Moulins of the 4th, where I see you are still uncertain of the intention of Monsieur de Savoye Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy. Not without mystery, and which nonetheless I hold as indifferent. Because, if he executes, we have peace abroad, and if not, that exercise will consolidate us all the better within. I see also that this war puts you all the sooner on the path of weddings; which may God please to bless. And you will always greatly oblige me to share with me the progress that these affairs will take. I come to what you write to me of myself: Should you not rather have admired my patience? To have seen for two months running against me all sorts of writings inside and outside the Kingdom? To be still every day cried out against, so much that the ears ache for all those who love peace, without my having replied? And could you have believed, let us speak the truth, either that I am so stupid, that I feel nothing of it: or such an enemy to myself, that I feel it without being moved by it? Certainly the King’s letter printed throughout Christendom has pierced my heart; the discourses published since, the Te Deum a Latin hymn of praise, "To Thee, O God" sung throughout the Kingdom, have not cured it. Is this what S. M. His Majesty, King Henri IV said,