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 and inſtruct their Senate with French Dragoons; Tutor the Pr. in my own Diſcipline, and ſoon the Nation under my Yoke: Ireland I'de ſecure  the Expenſive War, I have been at to Re-throne  Father. I'd Marry the Duke of Berry to his and have Scotland for a Dowry, and ſoon make  King of England, with as ſtrong Title as his  King of Spain.

Q. Do your Majeſtie think you ſhall ever this to paſs?

A. I can't tell, the Dutch and Engliſh have a plaugie streak to my Affairs, or elſe I might  effected my purpoſe e're this, but I begin now  grow out of hopes; the Joy I conceiv'd at the  of K William, for which his Holineſs wept is all  away by the Hand of Effeminiate Woman; For  part, I begin to think a Female Regencie in England, besides neither Spain nor France Good. I laugh when I heard they had Proclaim'd War againſt but her Lions have rous'd me from my Lethargie I find none of the Honey of Sampſons Lion in 'em,  Giol and Vinegar, the moſt bloodie inflatlare Rogue that ever were turn'd looſe. A Man may as ſoon Whirlwind as a Battalion of Engliſh Manmidons;  my part, I begin to Repent the overſight that  me provoke them.

Q. Pray who was Your Majeſties Counſel?,

A. Madan, Maiatenon, the Devil, the Papa, Father la Chefe, whoſe Advice I'm obliged to follow tho the old Gentlemen has me at last; for I still reſolve to purſue my old courſe of Life, which is  keep no Word of Oath further than my own  to take all advantages to encroach upon my Neighbours, to oppreſs my own Subjects, and perſecute the Reformed Religion, to draw Princes into an Alliance, and leave them in the Lurch; to be Abſolute and Arbitray in my way of Government, and to be a true Son of my Father to my Lives End.