Touching the first, I do give you my hearty thanks for your godly speeches, assuring you that though, by reason I have always followed the wars, I cannot be ignorant of the calamities by you alleged, yet you have so truly represented the same before mine eyes as to effectuate in me at this instant, not only the confirmation of mine own disposition to have peace, but also an assurance that this treaty shall take good and speedy end, seeing that it hath pleased God to raise up such a good instrument as you are." "Many are the causes," continued the Duke, "which, besides my disposition, move me to peace.

My father and mother are dead; my son is a young prince; my house has truly need of my presence.

I am not ignorant how ticklish a thing is the fortune of war, which--how victorious soever I have been--may in one moment not only deface the same, but also deprive me of my life.

The King, my master, is now, stricken in years, his children are young, his dominions in trouble.

His desire is to live, and to leave his posterity in quietness.