Meantime he took the part of Conde and the other princes, justified their proceedings to the special envoy sent over by Mary de' Medici, and wished the States to join with him in appealing to that Queen to let the affair, for his sake, pass over once more.
"And now I will tell your Mightinesses," said Caron, reverting once more to the dreaded marriage which occupies so conspicuous a place in the strangely mingled and party-coloured tissue of the history of those days, "what the King has again been telling me about the alliance between his son and the Infanta.

He hears from Carleton that you are in very great alarm lest this event may take place.

He understands that the special French envoy at the Hague, M.de la None, has been representing to you that the King of Great Britain is following after and begging for the daughter of Spain for his son.

He says it is untrue.

But it is true that he has been sought and solicited thereto, and that in consequence there have been talks and propositions and rejoinders, but nothing of any moment.