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Ducal Preussen is sovereign, Cleve is at peace, Hinter-Pommern ours; this Elector has conquered much, but Silesia, and Vor-Pommern, and some other things he will have to do without. Louis XIV, it is thought, once offered to get him made King, but that he declined for the present. Orange was at last exchanged for the small Principality of Neufchatel in Switzerland, which is Prussia's ever since.
To which the Kaiser again answers, "Nonsense!" and even falls upon astonishing schemes about it, as we shall see; but gives nothing. Ducal Preussen is sovereign, Cleve is at Peace, Hinter-Pommern ours; this Elector has conquered much: but the Silesian Heritages and Vor-Pommern, and some other things, he will have to do without.
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