The history of the League. . ends, but not $^r*9i:ferve them, by favouring their unjuftDefigns in the lead circumftance, tothe prejudice of the State. Being fuch as I have here defcribMhim, it was not hard for him to dis-cover the Intentions of King Philip:who holding himfelf afford of theSixteen, which he believd to be theprevailing Faction, and much morepowerful than in effect it was, laydhimfelf fb open, as to make his In-tentions be clearly underftood, whichthe great Prudence and Policy,whereon he fb much valued himfelf,fhouM have kept undifcoverd for alonger time, in expe&ation of a fit-t
The history of the League. . ends, but not $^r*9i:ferve them, by favouring their unjuftDefigns in the lead circumftance, tothe prejudice of the State. Being fuch as I have here defcribMhim, it was not hard for him to dis-cover the Intentions of King Philip:who holding himfelf afford of theSixteen, which he believd to be theprevailing Faction, and much morepowerful than in effect it was, laydhimfelf fb open, as to make his In-tentions be clearly underftood, whichthe great Prudence and Policy,whereon he fb much valued himfelf,fhouM have kept undifcoverd for alonger time, in expe&ation of a fit-ting opportunity to make themknown; when all things were dif-posd, and in a due readinefs for theExecution of his Defigns. After thePrefident had reprefented to him inhis Audiences, the weaknefsand ne-ceffities of the League, the Forcesand Progrefs of the King, the ex-tream danger in which Religion thenwas, and the immortal glory whichhe might acquire by preferving it inthe moft Chriftian kingdom, by theG g g $ Afliftancs. The Hi/lory of the League. Afliftance which was expe&ed fromhis Zeal and Power, that Prince whowas willing to fell his Aid at a higherPrice than bare Glory, without moreadvantage, open cl his mind, withoutajiy referve, after a moft (urprizingmanner. For he causM him to betold by his Secretary Don John UIdiaques, that he had refolvd to marryhis ohly Daughter the Infanu Ifabtlla^to the Archduke Erneftm\ and to givehim in Dowry, the Low-Countries,and fince that lor the Preferyation ofReligion in France, it was neceffarythey fhoud have a Cathdlick King,they couM not make a better Choicethan of that Princefs, who, beingNeece to the three laft Kings, andGrand daughter to JHknry the Second,was without contradiction more near-ly related to them than the Bourbons \*hat with her Perfbn, all the Low-Countries woud be re-united to theCrown, and that having, befidesthefe Advantages^ the whole Forcesof the Houle of Auftria in favour ofher, the Hefeticks woud fbon be ex-term
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