Certain Soldiers, who were near the Coach of Catherine of Medicis, said a thousand abusive Things of her; and as the Cardinal of Lorrain told her that he was going to see them hang’d: No, no, answer’d she, let them go: I will this Day shew to After-ages, that in the same Person a Woman a Queen, and an Italian, have known how to command their Passion.
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Quelques Soldats qui étoient prés du Carrosse de Catherine de Medicis, dirent cent Insolences d’elle: Et comme le Cardinal de Lorraine l’eût avertie qu’il les alloit faire pendre: Non, non, lui repondit-elle, laissez les aller; je veux apprendre aujourd’huy à la Posterité, qu’en une même Personne, une Femme, une Reine, et une Italienne, ont sçeu commander à leur Colere.
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King John being taken in a Battle which he fought before Poitiers against the English, was conducted to their Camp, where the Prince of Wales waited upon him bare-headed at Supper. The King desir’d him several times to sit by him, but the Prince excus’d himself with these Words: It does not become a Subject to sit by his Lord, Afterwards the King told him: I design’d to have treated you to Day at Supper, but Fortune has been willing that you should treat me.
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Le Roy Jean ayant été pris en une Bataille qu’il donna devant Poitiers contre les Anglois, fut conduit dans leur Camp, où le Prince de Galles le servit tête nuë à souper: Le Roy le pria plusieurs fois de s’asseoir auprés de lui, mais le Prince s’en excusa par ces Paroles: Il n’appartient pas au Sujet de s’asseoir auprés de son Seigneur; ensuite le Roy lui dit: J’avois dessein de vous donner aujourd’huy à souper, mais la Fortune a voulu que vous me l’ayez donné.
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A Painter having promised the finest of all his Pictures, to one who had no skill in them, this Man came and told him cunningly, that his House was on Fire: The Painter cry’d presently to his Prentice, Be sure you save such a Picture: By that means he found that this must be the best, and he asked it of him assoon as his Trouble was over, and that he was satisfied that it was but a false Alarm
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