The history of the League. . mp;[Family, touching the Parricide com-mitted on the Perfon of the late King ;and that he bound himfelf and his , to the payment of all Debtswhich he had contracted , as wellwithout the Kingdom as within it, tomake War againft him. After this, the Duke, going to payhis Refpe£h to him at Monceaux, wasreceived with great Honour, and te-ftimony of Affection : and it happen-ing, that the King in walking withhim, at his ordinary rate, which wasvery fwift,r that poor Prince , whowas fat and unwieldy, grew out ofbreath, freely told him, That he wasquite [pent,
The history of the League. . mp;[Family, touching the Parricide com-mitted on the Perfon of the late King ;and that he bound himfelf and his , to the payment of all Debtswhich he had contracted , as wellwithout the Kingdom as within it, tomake War againft him. After this, the Duke, going to payhis Refpe£h to him at Monceaux, wasreceived with great Honour, and te-ftimony of Affection : and it happen-ing, that the King in walking withhim, at his ordinary rate, which wasvery fwift,r that poor Prince , whowas fat and unwieldy, grew out ofbreath, freely told him, That he wasquite [pent, and coud $0 no farther :The King embracing him, faidonlythis : For my own part-, Cotifa* I (wearto y6U) this is all the Kevp:?y. I mMevmtake onyott) for all the M-fcbiefyou havedone me, when yon were Head of theLeague. Thus , the Duke beingcharmd with fb much Generofity andGoodnefs, which won upon his Na-ture, devoted himfelf wholly to hisfervice, and fervd him afterwards tohis great advantage, eipecially againft Ppp 2 the. Tf?e Hi/lory of the League. the Spaniards, in the retaking of LaFere and Amiens. Now, after this Agreement, thereremain d no more towards the totalextinguilhraent of that great Fire,which had fpread it felf through allthe Kingdom, than the reduction ofthe Dukes of Mercxur and otjoyeufeywho yet held for the League, the onin Bretagne, and the other in Languedoc. For, as to the Town olMarfeillesj ( which the Duke of Guije, towhom the King had given that Go-vernment of Provence , had retakenfrom the Rebels, it being then underthe dominion of two petty Tyrants,who acknowledge neither the King,nor the Duke of Mayenne, and whowouM have given it up to the Spani-ards} theHiftory of its Deliverance,belongs not to that of the League : forthe Duke of Joyeufe, three years werealready paft, when after the death ofhis Brother, who was drownd in theTarn, when he had been forced in hisRetrenchments at the Siege of Ville-?nur^ he was return d from Father An-ge theCapuchitt,
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