your affection If what you expressed to me at my departure be not quite lost you will not deny me this favour especially having in your necessity so excellent a Secretary as him you are wont to make use of I have understood you did me the honour to drink my health but as it is now there are requisite stronger remedies then that to restore it and it is only from you that I can expect any But from the reflection I make on the love you have for whatever belongs to you and the protection I have sometimes seen you afford your subjects I raise a confidence that you will not forsake me who am as much your vassal as if I had been born in your Town of Essars and withal do put particularly professe my self My Lord Your c To Mademoiselle de Rambouillet LETTER CXIV Madam IT must needs be acknowledg'd that I am remarkable for the sincerity of my friendship 't is a grief to me that I see you not as if it were a loss of great consequence to me and me thinks I spend not my time so well here as when I have the honour to be near you Amiens in your absence seems lesse pleasant to me then Paris and though I can every day visit Ladies that speak the Language of Picardy excellently well yet I do not think my self ever the happier for it The conversation of my Lord Duke de C Monsieur de T and Monsieur de whom I meet here often affords me no entertainment at all Sometimes I think it very tedious to continue three hours together in the Kings Chamber nay I find no diversion in the Society of Monsieur Libero Monsieur Compiegne and twenty more excellent persons I have no acquaintance with who very much celebrate my parts and tell me they have seen of my works I have seen the King play at Hoc all this afternoon and yet find not the least remission of my Spirits and though I go constantly thrice a week a Fox-hunting I find no great sport in it though there be in the company a hundred Dogs as many Horns which together make a hideous noise such as whereof the terrour would break your tender Ears To be short Madam the Recreations of the greatest Prince in the World divert me not and when I want your sight I am insensible even of the enjoyments of the Court You are certainly very ungrateful if you render me not the like but suspicious wretch that I am I fear me you take your pleasure sometimes with the Princesse and Mademoiselle de Bourbon nay haply since your coming to Grosbois you have not so much as wish'd your self five or six times at Amiens If it be so you may recompence it with this favour that you will be pleas'd to perswade their Highnesses to honour me with some few remembrances that I may not be thought the lesse considerable by them for being in a place where I see the King and my Lord Cardinal twice every day And yet Madam you are not to expect ever the more news from me for I have not any to acquaint you with My Lord Fabert came hither yesterday mâ—rning and went away at one in the afternoon with Orders to our Generals He told me that Monsieur Arnault hath playd the Devil with his hinder feet in a battle that happened near l'Esle and that the Marshal de Brezê hath written it to the King as I hear by Monsieur de Chavigny 'T is reported here that our Armies are returning and that we shall not return so soon I pray be pleas'd to chide a little at it and honour me so far as to believe me sincerely and as much as you can desire Madam Your c. Amiens Sept. 10. 1640. To my Lord Cardinal Mazarin LETTER CXV My Lord BY a Letter from Madam de V. I have understood the favour your Eminence was pleas'd to do me and with what extraordinary kindness and what assurances of good inclinations you have thought fit to grant me since then my Lord I may thence infer that amidst the affairs of greatest consequence your E. condescends to a remembrance of your most inconsiderable Servants and that while you are employ'd in the highest things you neglect not the lowest I have a certain confidence you will excuse the boldness I take to return you my most humble thanks and that you will be pleas'd to take the pains to read the profession I make that besides the respects and veneration which we all owe a person who hath and doth still add to the Glory of this State I shall through all the actions of my life ever own a most particular inclination to express my self My Lord Your c To my Lady Dutchess of Savoy LETTER CXVI Madam AFter so many consolatory Letters as there hath been but too much occasion to write to your Royal Highness I should be very loath to let slip an occasion to write you one of congratulation These come to you so seldome that I think they must needs be very welcome when they do and were there nothing else to recomend them certainly the novelty should make them acceptable It is long since Madam that I have expected what now begins to appear and thought the mis-fortune of the most accomplished and most amiable Princess that ever was too great a disorder in the World to last long How great soever the Malice and envy of Fortune seemed to be towards you and what fate soever might crosse your affairs yet was I still guilty of an imagination that so much goodness generosity and constancy and so many Divine qualities as your R. H. is furnish'd with could not be long unfortunate and that at length Heaven would be forc'd to do some miracle for a person on whom it had bestow'd so many There is much reason to believe Madam that that of the taking of Turin will be seconded by a many others and that the great success which hath happen'd in your Dominions is a certain Politick Symptome that there will be a change of all things and such a general settlement as naturally ought to be But what you should the more rejoyce at in this happy revolution is that there 's nothing so certain as that your concernment therein multiplies the joy of all here and that your R. H. is so well beloved that the more generous part of the Court do as much rejoyce for the interest you have in this prosperity as for the advantage accrews to the Crown of France and the great acquests of Glory which his Majesties Armies have made thereby I doubt not Madam but your R. H. is satisfy'd that amidst the publick joy I have some particular matter of rejoycing whereof no other can be equally sensible if you but honour me so much as to reflect on the extraordinary passion I have for whatever you are concern'd in and the inclination and obligation wherewith I am Madam Your c. Paris Oct. 4. 1640. To
Cicero for least you might think that Palatus came from me Your Gout certainly never came so much wish'd for as when you were there and it is a question to me whether your health ever did you so great service that very courtesy is such as should work a reconconciliation between you and it or at least deserves you should not mince it into a fluxion and be so modest as not to call it by it's own name But be ingenuous have you not done as that Coelius did sanas liniendo obligandoque plantas incedensque gradu laborioso For to deal freely with you a Gout that takes you so seasonably and stayes you eight dayes to enjoy your self to feed on Figs and Musk-melons I cannot but entertain a little jealousy of On the other side I cannot by any means take it well you should grow so familiar with the Master of the house and that he should profess so much friendship to you as he pretends in all the Letters he writes hither All that I was able to do was to give way to Monsieur Chapelain and suffer my self to be named the second Non jam prima peto Mnestaeus nequâ— vincere câ—rto Quanquam O! But I will never consent to be third Sir do you observe that Quanquam O! it is spoken in my Spirit with greater indignation and bitterness then in Virgil. Look therefore to your self both you and he and the other and behave your selves very gingerly For in a word I know not whether I shall be able to endure all this and whether it will not make me bankrupt as to all patience Certainly there 's not any thing could â—aise so much jealousy in me as as the friendship of Monsieur de Balzac he is one of the two men in the World with whom I would gladly spend the remainder of my life you may easily judge who the other is Not to mention his wit which is beyond any thing may be said of it there is not under Heaven a better Friend a better man a more sociable a more pleasant or a more generous Vir for me thinks I can expresse it better in Latine facillimis jucundissimis suavissimis moribus summae integritatis humanitatis fidei liberalissimus cruditissimus urbanissimus in omni genere officij ornatissimus The Friendship which we mutually preserve without any mention of it in writing one to another and the confidence we have one of another is a thing rare and singular but above all things of very great example in the World and whence a many well disposed people who destroy themselves with the writing of ill Letters should learn to be quiet and give others leave to be so What you say of building about Balzac as about Chilâ—y I very much approve of and it were certainly very seasonable but we wits are not the greatest Builders and lay our foundation for it upon these Verses of Horace Aedificare casas plaustâ—llo adjuâ—gere mures Siquem delectet barbatum insania verâ—et At least Monsieur de Gombaut Monsieur de l'Estoille and my self are resolv'd not to build at all till the time come that stones dispose themselves one upon another at the sound of the Haâ—pe I know not whether Apollo be fallen out with the Trade and hath given it over because he was so ill paid for the Walls of Troy but me thinks his favorites are not much addâ—cted to it and their Genius directs them to other things much different from sumptuous Edifices I therefore thank you for your hill but I were none of the wisest to go and build in a place where I have already a fair house ready built I have be thought my self that that passage Nulli potest facilius esse loqui quà m rerum naturae pingere c. Was the younger Pliny's and thought it very pleasant that you durst not name him to me But in your judgement is it not better said Nulli potest facilius esse loqui quà m rerum naturae facere For in the first place there 's more opposition between loqui and facere then between loqui and pingere which is something of more grace In the next it is an expression of greater height Nulli facilius est loqui quam rerum naturae facâ—re It is not so easily for any one to say as for Nature to do then to say It is not so easy for any one to say as for Nature to paint Will you not acknowledge this to be something flat and of a low Spirit to refuse a word which presents it self and is withal the better and to keep a great Stir to find out another that 's not so good and farther from the sence He is one of those eloquent blades of whom Quintilian says Illis sordent omnia quae narturae dictavit And in another place Quid quod nihil jam proprium placet dum parúm creditur disertum quod alias dixisset He thought to have been very much refin'd with his pingere and hath spoild all While I write this I consider with my self how finely I were surpriz'd if this passage belong to the elder Pliny But if it be his be the losse I will not retract what I have said why does he speak like his Nephew Non sapit patruum in that passage even he who in comparison of the other is wont to be patruus Patruissimus as Platuâ—us or Tâ—rence says Which of the two is it I think the former I would gladly know where that Tree grows who bore the Roses you sent me Certainly neither Poestum nor Aegypt nor Greece nor Italy ever brought forth the like It may very well be your self Tu Cinnomomum Tu Rosa You look as if you thought this taken out of the Song of Songs when it is Plautus's I can hardly imagine those Verses should be the work of any moderne wit but if they are I should be much troubled they were any other then yours or Monsieur de Balzac's Whoever is the Authour he may very well be prov'd of them and those Roses are certainly â—orth a many Lawrels But I beseech you let me know whose they are dirmi amine mea Rosa mea voluptas With your Roses you have also sent thorns when you propose to me the two passages you would have me explicate In the first place as to that of salust we are to consider that Hunting was a commendable exercise among the Scythians the Numidians nay the Grecians themselves and particularly the Locâ—demonians but I do not remember I have seen any thing to prove that among the Romans it was the exercise of the more vertuous or better sort For Agriculture it is to be distinguish'd according to Time In old Rome consular men and such as had been Dictators return'd from the management of the Common-wealth to the Plough-tail which was the ordinary employment or calling of the Papirij the Manlij and the Decij But they had no sooner tasted the delciacies of Asia and Greece ere
inconsiderately engage in the besieging of a place on which all Christendome had it's eyes and therefore as soon as I was assur'd that it was assaulted I was in a manner confident it would be taken For to speak impartially we have sometimes observ'd my Lord Cardinal himself mistaken in those things which he hath entrusted to the conduct of others but in the enterprises whereof he would see the execution himself and which he hath encourag'd with his presence we have never known him miscarry I therefore was satisfy'd that he would over-master all difficulties and that he who had taken Rochel in spight of the Ocean would easily reduce Corbie notwithstanding the Rains and the Winter But since it comes so pertinently in my way to speak of him and that it is three months since I durst presume to do it give me leave now and take it not ill if amidst the remission this news hath wrought in your Spirits I take my time to tell you what I think I am not of their opinion who endeavouring as you say to convert Eloges into Briefs scrue up all my Lord Cardinal's Actions into Miracles celebrate his prayses beyond what those of men might or ought to aspire to and out of a desire of having too great things believ'd of him advance those that are incredible But neither am I guilty of that malicious baseness as to hate a man because he is above all others nor am I carry'd away with the torrent of general hatreds and affections which I know to be many times unjust I consider him with a judgement which passion forces not to bend either way and I look on him with the same eyes that Posterity shall But when within two hundred years those who come after us shall find in our History that the Cardinal of Richelieu hath dismantled Rochel overthrown Heresy and by one single Treaty as it were with a Trammel taken in thirty or fourty of it's Cities at a cast when they shall understand that in the time of his Ministry the English were beaten and broken Pignerol conquer'd Casal reliev'd all Lorraine joyn'd to this Crown the greatest part of Alsatia reduc'd under our power the Spaniards defeated at Veillane and Avoin and shall observe that while he had the steerage of our affairs France had not a neighbour of whom it got not either places or â—attails if they have any French blood left in their Veins or any love for the glory of their Country can these things be possibly read and not raise in them an affection for him and in your judgement will they love or esteem him the lesse because in his time that Revenue of the Hostel de Ville was paid some what later then it should have been or that there were some new Officers thrust into the Exchecquer All great things cost dear great attempts prove too violent and strong remedies weaken but if we are to look on States as immortal and to consider the future advantages as present if we cast up a right we shall find this man who they say hath ruin'd France hath sav'd it many millions by the bare reducing of Rochel which for these two thousand years in all minorities of Kings all discontents of Grandees and all opportunities of revolt would have been sure to rebel and consequently oblig'd us to eternal expence This Kingdome had but two kinds of Enemies that it had need fear the Huguenots and the Spaniards My Lord Cardinal coming to the helm of affairs designs the ruin of both Could he attempt any thing more glorious or more advantageous He hath effected one and hath not yet accomplished the other but if he had fail'd in the former those who now cry out that it was a precipitate resolution unseasonable and beyond our force to think to break and give a check to that of Spain as we yet find by experience would they not also have condemn'd the design of destroying the Huguenots would they not have said that it was to no purpose to re-assume an enterprise wherein three of our Kings had mis-carried of which the late King durst not think on And would they not have concluded as falsly as they now do in the other business that the thing was not feisible because it had not been done But let us consider I pray whether it may be attributed to him or to Fortune that he hath not effected that design Let us consider what course he took to do it and what Engins he set on work Let us see whether he wanted much of overturning the great Tree of the House of Austria and if he shak'd not to the very Roots that trunk which with two of it's boughs covers the North and the East and ore-shadowes the rest of the Earth He went under the Pole to find out the Heros who seem'd to be destin'd to put the axe to it and lay it on the ground He was the Spirit that animated that thunder which hath fill'd Germany with fire and lightning the noise whereof hath been heard all over the World But when this Tempest was blown over and that Fortune had diverted the stroak did he sit down content Did he not afterward put the Empire into greater hazard then it had been by the losse of the Battles of Leipsic and Lutzen His policy and his intrigues got us presently an Army of 40000 men in the very bowels of Germany with a General who had all the qualities requisite to work a change of State But if the King of Sweden would hazard himself beyond what a person of his designs and quality should and if the Duke of Fridland's design was discover'd because not put timely in execution could he charme the bullet that took away the former in the midst of his Victory or make the latter invulnerable to the thrusts of a Partisan And if after all this to bring all things to a total ruin those who commanded the Army of our Allyes before Norlinghen gave Battle at an unseasonable time was it in my Lord Cardinal's power being 200 leagues off to change that resolution and stop the precipitation of those who for an Empire for that was the prize of that Victory would not expect three dayes You see then that to secure the House of Austria and to divert his designs which are now thought so temerarious Fortune was forc'd to do three miracles that is to bring about three great accidents which in all likelihood should not have happened the death of the King of Sweden that of the Duke of Fridland and the losse of the Battle of Norlinghen You will tell me that he ought not to quarrel with Fortune for crossing him herein since shee hath been such a faithful Servant of his in all other that it was shee by whose assistance he took places before they were besieg'd who hath made him a fortunate Commander of Armies without experience who hath as it were alwayes led him by the hand and delivered him out of those precipices into
may be better satisfy'd with the sentiments my Lord Marquess of Pisany hath for you I send you a scrip of the least Letter he writ to me For Monsieur de Charigny you are certainly oblig'd to have many respects for him he is ready upon all occasions to speak of you with all the esteem and affection imaginable he acquaints all his friends with your friendship towards him and promises it to those whom as the dearest he hath the greatest inclinations to oblige He told me the other day that you had written him the handsomest and most obliging Letter in the World but being engaged in Company he had not the leasure to shew it me Three dayes since he took his journey hence towards the Army to be present at the Ceremony of the Order which the King granted yesterday to the Prince of Mourgues and returns to morrow Of the Kings return there is not any certainty I shall my Lord in that business take the greatest care I can as I would in all things you command me The hopes of taking in Perpignan so soon are very much remitted they now give out it will not be before the 25th of the next month Monsieur de Turene told me he would lay two hundred pieces that it would be taken before June were past Whenever Monsieur de Chavigny goes to the Army he lodges at Monsieur des Noyers it is now the greatest friendship in the World but withal the most reall and most sincere I am My Lord Your c. Narbonne May 22. 1642. To Monsieur Chapelain LETTER CXXXII SIR THough I am well furnished with confidence yet dare I not return to Paris without sending you an answer and am indeed asham'd I have been so long in your debt as to that part of my duty but I must withal freely tell you that fore-seeing I should have occasion to write to you to acquaint you with what judgement should be made of the Verses you sent I delay'd it as long as I could out of a design to save my self a Letter If you are but just you must not think it strange that a man should be a little fearful when he is to write to a Doctor as you are and certainly when I do but reflect that it is to the most judicious person of our age the maker of the Imperial Crown the Metamorphoser of Lionne and the Father of the Maid that I write my hair stands up and makes me look like a Hedge-Hog but when on the other side I consider that this Letter is directed to the most indulgent of mankind to the excuser of all faults the commender of all labours to a dove to a Lamb my hair lyes down as smooth and as flat as the feathers of a drown'd Chicken and I fear you not so much as the wagging of a stâ—aw I shall therefore tell you Sir gentle as you are that the Verses of Monsieur de Balzac have not yet been seen by my Lord Cardinal O Coelum O Terras O Maria Neptuni Will you cry out Is this the account is made of the Sons of Iupiter Is this a treatment befitting the greatest wit in the world Frange miser calamos vigilataque praelia dele You have indeed reason to say all this but you are to believe that a many other things were to be thought on all this journey and that if Apollo whom you know had come in person to Narbonne with all his light and lustre about him he would have been received but in the quality of Chyrurgion I have spoke of it a hundred times to Monsieur de Chavigny who ever answered me that for Monsieur Balzac's sake it must be reserv'd for a time when the spirits of his Eminency were less distracted with affairs and more fit to entertain things of that nature He hath commanded me to entreat you on his behalf to return the greatest acknowledgments possible to our friend for the Epigrams he made for him wherewith he is infinitely satisfy'd to say truth they are the handsomest in the world As for the Verses directed to my Lord Cardinal they are absolutely Virgilian with a little more Enthusiasme then the Authour is wont to have and for my part had I both my Arms broken on the Wheel I should take a pleasure to hear them If it be any shame that he for whom they were made hath not yet seen them the greatest part of it will fall on Monsieur de la Victoire whose care it principally was For my part I have contributed thereto all the care and affection I ought and abating all thoughts of the powerfulness of your recommendation and the passion I have to serve Monsieur de Balzac I should I profess have solicited with no less ardency for a man risen out of the bottome of Sweden that should have sent hither what you have All the offence I have committed is that I have not written to you sooner but you have pardon'd me far greater and consequently will this since I am Sir Your c. Avignon June 11. 1642. To Mademoiselle de Rambouillet LETTER CXXXIII MADAM THere 's nothing so certain as that I should have an extraordinary affection for you if I should never see you again for it being but two Moneths since I left you it is double to what it was and encreases dayly so much that If I see you not suddenly I question not but it will defie all limits To say truth besides the satisfaction it is to have spent some time without any contestation with you and pass'd over a Lent without any dispute about the Almond-milk your Letters Madam have I must needs confess contributed much to make me judge more favourably of you and think you more amiable The two you have honoured me with have rais'd in me new matter of astonishment and as if I never had been acquainted with your perfections and that every one to speak freely hath some little indignation at the reading of those things which he might have written yet I have I assure you been extreamly pleas'd with them they have dispell'd all my afflictions they have in a manner cut'd me of all misfortunes and have infus'd into me a joy which I could not have expected here but by enchantment or miracle Of both which there is so much in what ever you write that I wonder not at all that they have wrought this effect in me but only that they have enflam'd with an extraordinary impatience to see you again since there is not any man who had the advantages of his wit and senses and knew you to be so mischeivous as I do but would rather desire to be alwayes at a distance of two hundred Leagues from you were it only but to receive of your Letters It should on the other side be your wish that I sate down content with this honour and that I came not neer you for doubtless being far from you the services I do you are greater and you ought to
make of it as that I may understand what you write to me and what you do I expect with impatience the gleanings of the harvest you have made in Poitou and that you would send me the best and choicâ—st of what you have learned The partnership there is between us is extraoodinarie confers enim rem industriam and I though I contribute nothing have my part of the profit The civill Lawyers call this Societatem Leoninam which the Lawes will not by anie means allow I know not what passage you mean to which you say I have not answered be pleased to let me know it I thought I had left nothing unanswered I almost subscribe to your interpretation of hem alterum but methinks it is somewhat disadvantageous to Terence I should be glad for his sake another might be sound But as to the Ladies who I told you knew not a word of Cicero pray give me your opinion of what Salust saies of Sempronia that she was Literis Graecis ac Latinis docta in another place he saies of Sylla Literis Graecis atque Latinis juxta atque doctissimè eruditus That a woman should commit faults in her own language if she be not well versed in it I nothing wonder at but that he does observe it in a man and that an eminent one I think verie strange and do you but imagine what praise it were to the Duke of Weymar that anie one should say in his commendation that he were verie knowing in the Germane Tongue Farewell I am Your c. Paris Sept. 20. In reading over my Letter I observe an equivocation in the beginning I come out of a Countrie where mine c for that mine might relate to Countrie and I mean only my Wit though I know you would not have taken the one for the other However I acknowledge it a fault Vitanda inprimis ambiguitas non haec solum quae incertum intellectum facit ut Chrematem audivi percussisse Demeam sed illa quoque quae etiamsi turbare non potest sensum in idem tamen verborum vitium incidit ut si quis dicat visum à se hominem librum scribentem Nam etiamse librum ab homine scribi pateat malè tamen composuerat fecerarâ—â—â— ambiguum quantum in ipso fuit I have chosen rather to write this then correct what I had once written To my Lord d' Avaux LETTER CLXXXVIII Myy LORD YOu do well indeed to quarrell at my complaints and to say O tu insulsè malè molestè vivis Per quem non licet esse negligentem The excellencie of your Letters sufficientlie excuses the impertunitie wherewith I beg them This last is admirable beyond anie I must acknowledge my self in your debt You verifie the proverb verie much that who is bound paies onlie I wonder that person in whom there seems to be great riches and who can easilie part with them is so hard to be brought to it We favourites of Apollo cannot but wonder that one who hath spent his whole life in Treaties should write such excellent Letters and should be glad that you Gentlemen of Affairs did not meddle with our Trade And certainlie it were but just you contented your selves with the glorie of having put a period to so many important negotiations and particularly that you are now engaged in for the disarming of all the severall Nations of Europe and not intrench upon that poor reputation which is gained by the disposall and Tacticks of words and the fortune of pleasant imaginations It is not over-honourable for a person of your Gravity and concernment to the publick to contend with us for Eloquence or make it your businesse while you are employed to reconcile the Swedes and the Imperialists and to ballance the interests of the earth to work an accommodation between Consonants that clash and to measure periods Why in Gods name do you not content your self with the making of excellent and sound dispatches such as those of the Cardinall d' Ossat or if you will be guilty of a greater ambition those of Cardinal du Perron but will needs trouble your self with such as cannot but raise in us all the indignation in the world You will pardon me that I tell you this with some disorder nothing but your Letter could have put me into it as what hath dissolved the cement of all friendship Qui volet ingenio cedere nullus erit Nec jam prima peto Mnesthaeus neq viâ—cere certo But I who would willinglie allow you some paces before me must need be vexed to be left so farre behind I shewed your Letter to one of my Friends an able understanding man intimately acquainted with M. and who hath an infinite esteem of his merit Having read it good God saith he how far is this man beyond had I seen this Letter in any hands but yours I should have sworne you had writ it 'T is for your mortification my Lord that I repeat these last words Et sibi Consul Ne placeat curru servus portatur eodem To give you my reall thoughts of it you never writ a handsomer or made a nobler discoverie of your abâ—lities nor have you been insensible of it your self when in the conclusion you presse me to acknowledge my self in your debt May I perish if I am not ashamed to answer it for to so many excellent and noble things what can I return you Pro molli viâ—la pro purpureo Hyacintho Carduus foliis surget paliurus acutis At least the assurances I have given your Lordshp of another mans approbation and the confusion you have put me into comes upon you more directlie then those of the last return You very pleasantlie shift off the praises I gave you about the Building of Monsieur Pepin where you tell me it is pity I had not seen the Coaches he sent you and that I should find you a person of as much Honour as before it is as handsomelie expressed as could be and that word must needs proceed from a Gallant spirit Cui benè in pulivere recalcitrat Hence I inferre you would not have suffered that more hyperbolical flattery then any I have been guiltie of Est major Coelo sed minor est Domino But it is to no great purpose for you to say that to have a handsome house is a thing not much considerable L. Opimii domus cum vulgo inviseretur à populo suffragata creditur domino ad Consolatum obtinendum saith Cicero And you see how he cries out himself pro domo suâ I must agree with you that the Edifice you are at work upon now that great Temple of Peace into which all the severall Nations of Christendome are to enter is much more worthy your endeavours and is the only design fit to employ your great Mind I am elevated my Lord at the Newes I hear of it and that it will have a contrarie fate to that other Magnificentiae verae