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History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. VIII. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER IV
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Baby Carlos would much like to have Tuscany too; but that is a Fief of the Empire, and might easily be better disposed of, thinks the Kaiser.

A more or less uncertain point, that of Tuscany; as many points are! Last of the Medici complained, in a polite manner, that they were parting his clothes before he had put them off: however, having no strength, he did not attempt resistance, but politely composed himself, 'Well, then!' [Scholl, ii.

219-221; Coxe's _Walpole,_ i.

346; Coxe's _House of Austria_ (London, 1854), iii.

151.] Do readers need to be informed that this same Baby Carlos came to be King of Naples, and even ultimately to be Carlos III.


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