The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English; / or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern

by Abel Boyer

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As one considered the losses which the City of Milan had occasioned to France, he said, It were to be wished that City had been quite destroy’d: No, no, said Chancellour du Prat, the War of Milan is like Physick to France, to cleanse her of abundance of lewd and debauched Men that would be apt to infect her.

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Comme on consideroit les pertes que la Ville de Milan causoit à la France, on dit qu’il seroit à souhaiter que cette Ville là eût été entierement ruinée: Non, non, dit le Chancelier du Prat; la Guerre de Milan sert d’une Purgation à la France, pour la nettoyer d’une infinité d’hommes perdus & debauchez, qui la pourroient infecter.