Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, Vol. 2: From the Restoration of King Charles II. to the Conclusion of the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht, in the Reign of Queen Anne (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, Vol. 2: From the Restoration of King Charles II. To the Conclusion of the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht, in the Reign of Queen Anne

To thisi will add alpleafant palfage, t that the' Prince of Conde told yoimg Rouvigny, now Earl ofa Galloway. The King of France has never yet fought a battle and has a mighty notion of that matter: And, it feems, he apprehends the danger of it too much. Once he was chiding the Prince of Conti for his being about to fight a combat with a Man Of quality. The King told him, he ought to confider the dignity of Dhis blood, and not'put himfelf on the le'yg with other fubjefts, and that his uncle had declined fighting on that very 'account. The P1ince of Conti anfweied, my uncle might well have done To, after he had won two battl les buta! I, who have yet done nothing, muit pretend to no fuch dif'tinction. The King told this anfwer to the Prince of Cohde, who faw he was nettled with it; So he faid to him, that his nephew had in 'that fpoke like a young man For winning of a battle was no great matter, fince, tho'fhe who: commanded had the glory of it, yet it was the fubalterns that did the bufinefs: In which he thought he pleafed the King, and for which he laughed heartily at him, when he told the ltory. The late King told me, that in thefe campaigns the Spaniards were both fo ignorant and To backward, fo proud and yet fo'wi'ak, that they would never Own their feeblenefs, or their.

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