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No. 55. L'Ambassadeur en France au Ministre des Affaires Etrangères. Paris, le 16/29 Juillet 1914.
Hee that is a knight arrant, exercised in the affaires of Ladies and Gentlewomen, hath more places to send mony to, than the diuell hath to send his spirites to. There was a delicate wench called Flauia Aemilia lodging in S. Markes streete at a Goldsmiths, which I would faine haue had to the grand test, to trie whether she were currant in alcumie or no.
Her own days are memories, but, being French, she still lives in the romance of others. "Good evening," said Traill; "how's the business good?" "Mais, oui, Monsieur; les affaires vont assez bien." They climbed down the narrow little staircase, made narrower and almost impassable by the pots of evergreens placed for decoration upon some of the steps.
To govern well a family, and a kingdome, are not different degrees of Prudence; but different sorts of businesse; no more then to draw a picture in little, or as great, or greater then the life, are different degrees of Art. A plain husband-man is more Prudent in affaires of his own house, then a Privy Counseller in the affaires of another man. Craft
No. 28. Le Chargé d'Affaires en France an Ministre des Affaires Etrangères. Paris, le 13/26 Juillet 1914.
He, however, insisted on giving me a dinner on board his vessel, which I accepted, and took with me the secretary to the Spanish embassy, M. Carrio, a man of wit and amiable manners, to partake of it: he has since been secretary to the Spanish embassy at Paris and charge des affaires. I had formed an intimate connection with him after the example of our ambassadors.
Thus much haue I written of these seuen Ilands by experience, because I was a dweller there, as I haue sayd before, the space of seuen yeeres in the affaires of master Thomas Locke, master Anthonie Hickman, and master Edward Caselin, who in those dayes were worthy merchants, and of great credite in the citie of London. A description of the Iland of Madera.
And touching the priuate affaires intreated vpon betwixt her Maiestie and the Emperour, I had letters from him to satisfie her highnesse therein.
Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us "Point ne se faut couroucer aux affaires, Il ne leur chault de toutes nos choleres." But we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds.
About three in the morning we reached a larger village than we had hitherto passed. The inhabitants had been apprised of the events in the Rue Neuve des Capucines before the ministry of the Affaires Étrangères, and the revolutionary element had increased in audacity.
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