lib. 1, saith as much of a melancholy lawyer, to whom he administered physic, and Rodericus a Fonseca, consult.

As it is in my mind to celebrate my daughter's wedding with all pomp worthy of my crownI want to ask youto consult with my sonas to how most gracefully and amusingly to entertain the Courts of Poland, Saxony, Brunswick and Mecklenburg, who will all be here for an entire weekin a word, how we can win much honor and glory by this wedding.

This occasioned a consulting of the deposition in which my person was supposed to be described, and which my conductors had brought with them for their direction.

Mercy had reason to suspect that some were even wicked enough to desire to influence him against his wife by the same means by which the Duke de Richelieu had formerly alienated his grandfather from Marie Leczinska; and the queen herself received proof positive that Maurepas, in spite of her civilities to him and his countess, had become jealous of her political influence, and had endeavored to prevent his consulting her on public affairs.