The history of the League. . refsdthemfelvesto him; generous,magnani-mous, not to be movd to injure anyman ; no not to hurt even his greateitEnemies, but by honourable ways; ex-tremely perfuafive in difcourfe, dif-guifinghis thoughts, when he appearedmoll open; wile and prudent in hisCounfells, bold, prompt and valiantin the execution of them, chearfullyenduring all the hardfliips of War, incommon with the meaneft Soldier,expofing his perfon, and contemningthe greateft dangers, to compafs whathe had once determind. But thatwhich gave the greateft luftre to fomany noble qualities, was the quite
The history of the League. . refsdthemfelvesto him; generous,magnani-mous, not to be movd to injure anyman ; no not to hurt even his greateitEnemies, but by honourable ways; ex-tremely perfuafive in difcourfe, dif-guifinghis thoughts, when he appearedmoll open; wile and prudent in hisCounfells, bold, prompt and valiantin the execution of them, chearfullyenduring all the hardfliips of War, incommon with the meaneft Soldier,expofing his perfon, and contemningthe greateft dangers, to compafs whathe had once determind. But thatwhich gave the greateft luftre to fomany noble qualities, was the quitecontrary of all thefe, in the perfon ofthe King; who, by his ill condud,rather than his ill fortune, had loft theaffe&ion of the greateft part of Franceyand chiefly of the Partfians^ wThich bythe higheft diforder, that coud pofliblyhappen in a State, was already trans-ferred to him? who, from his fubje£bbegan openly to appear his Rival, inthe thing of the World, whereof Mo-narchs are, and ought to be, moft jea-lous, But. The Hiftory of the League. But as there is no Mine of Gold,where the pretious Metal is fo whollypure, as to be found unmixd withcommon Earth, fo were thefe greatnatural endowments of the Duke ofGuife debasd by the mixture ofmany imperfections and vices; ofwhich the principal was theinfatiabledefire of greatnefs and of glory, andthat vail Ambition, to which he madeall other things fubfervient. Befideswhich, he was ralli, prefumptuous,felf-conceited, wedded to his own o-pinions, and defpifing the advice of o-thers, (though that more covertly,)fubtile, unfincere, no true friend, butcentring all things in his own interefl;though he appeard the moft obligingand the moft officious of all men, yetthe good he did, was onely in orderto himfelf, always covering hisvaft defigss, by the fpecious pretenceof publique good, and the preferva-tion of the true Religion: too muchconfiding in his own good fortune,looting and hoodvvincking himfelfin his profperity, which gave himf
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