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 King  Spain's Death ,  work'd up the Peace at Reſwick, to get into quiet Poſieſſion of the Netherlands; I ſurrender'd up that part I had conquer'd, to obtain the whole; and keept my Dragoons a foot, to maintain my Title to it.

Q. Who made the King of Spain's Will¿? [sic] A. Old Portocarero, at my roper coſt and charge, and chiefly by my Direction; he ſold me his Country as Judas did our Saviour to the Jews, and to ſpeak Truth is e'en as good a Prieſt as he was an Apoſtle; the one was as fit for my purpoſe, as the other was for the Devils: I am now driving the ſame bargain with the Cardinal Primate in the North.

Q. Why do you ſpeak againſt the Man that has ſerv'd you?

A. O! ever while you live, we love the Treaſon. but hate the Traitor, he has berray'd his Country, won't ſtick to do as much by me; he has ſerv'd my turn, and now for Politic Reaſons, 'tis fit I ſhould prefer him.

Q. As how?

A. To the Reſentments of the Spaniſh Mob, inſinuate that is the occaſion of all all their Misfortunes; Then has he no way left but to follow Judas in all his Examples, chuſe a Tree, to eſcape a Gibbet, or by a draught of Italian Ratſbane, ſhare the ſame fate with his late Maſter, to whom he was at once, a Proufound Prieſt, a true Phyſician, and an expert Lawyer; ſubverted his Will, Poiſond his Body, and took no care at all for his Soul.

Q. How did your Majeſty acquire the Name of Lewis the Great

A. By Tyranny, and unjust Conqueſt, I ſeiz d upon thoſe Principalities that lay commodius with my own, and gave a reaſon for it by the Mouths laws  Orange by the