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Updated: June 26, 2025
OLIVAREZ. You have not told us, Princess Eboli, If there be hope for Gomez, and if we may Expect ere long to greet you as his bride? But can I do it? The man whom I reward With my sweet Eboli must be a man Of noble stamp indeed. OLIVAREZ. And such he is, A man of mark and fairest fame, a man Whom our dear monarch signally has graced With his most royal favor.
Philip IV. not only heaped every kind of honour upon his sister's courageous favourite, but even, it is said, swelled the number of her conquests. Whilst in the Spanish capital she had allied herself politically with the Minister Olivarez, and obtained great ascendancy over the Cabinet of Madrid.
Letters which he carried gave him admission to the works of art; but excepting securing the friendship of Fonesca, a noted patron of art, and an order to paint a portrait of the poet Gongora, he was unnoticed, and so he returned in a few months to Seville. Subsequently Fonesca interested the minister Olivarez in his behalf.
Olivarez became as sovereign a minister in Spain, as his predecessor the duke of Lerma had been; but the archduchess, though now with only the title of stadtholderess of the Netherlands, held the reins of power with a firm and steady hand.
EBOLI. I know your business, Duchess, and you come hither from the queen, To speak my sentence to me; do it quickly. OLIVAREZ. I am commanded by your majesty To take your cross and key. And but once more May I not kiss my gracious sovereign's hand? OLIVAREZ. In holy Mary's convent shall you learn Your fate, princess. Alas! then I no more Shall ever see the queen. Princess, farewell.
In their hands was the vast correspondence with Mendoza and Parma, and Olivarez at Rome, and with Mucio; in which all the stratagems for the subjugation of Protestant Europe were slowly and artistically contrived. Of the great conspiracy against human liberty, of which the Pope and Philip were the double head, this midnight triumvirate was the chief executive committee.
Then on the 6th, he says, the Bachelor Torres came from Madrid, and advised that the skull should be laid bare once more; and on the 7th, there being still doubt whether the skull was not injured, the operation was performed by whom it is not said but without any good result, or, according to Olivarez, any discovery, save that Vesalius was wrong, and the skull uninjured.
At Simon's Bay we refitted ship and took in fresh supplies; and while we remained getting these latter on board several old friends came to see us from Cape Town. Amongst these was no other than Don Ferdinando Olivarez, who told us he had given up the sea as a profession.
The Duke of Lerma, Minister of State, who had so long been the actual ruler of Spain, was deposed, and into his place slipped the suave and handsome Olivarez, Gentleman-in-Waiting to the young King. Olivarez was from Seville, and had known the family of Velasquez. It was through his influence that Diego so soon got the nod of Royalty.
However, for nine days the wound goes on well, and Don Carlos, having had a wholesome fright, is, according to Doctor Olivarez, the medico de camara, a very good lad, and lives on chicken broth and dried plums. But on the tenth day comes on numbness of the left side, acute pains in the head, and then gradually shivering, high fever, erysipelas.
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