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I protest to Almighty God, said he, ther be ladies heir in Paris of Lorrain, who haue had in their own countrie tenne thousand livres of rent, begging heir, and wil thank me when I give them five solz of the almes which the Cardinal de Richelieu did leave to be distributed among the pouer people. Think you, would not the Quene, or should she not, rather bestow her charity upon theis ladyes, whom the French armies have rouined, then send to Scotland for to bring a ladye out of it, to bestow her charity upon? The ladyes of Lorraine are sterving here, and the Queen hath not aneugh to keepe in their lyffes, and you would persuade her to send yet for more strangers to come to her to get charity. I know you think you do wel, and are more wysse then I, because your passion leadeth you so, having no other thing in your mind but that child, and how to assist her. But what would you think of another man, who, in the circumstances wherin we are, seeing many ladyes in the country like to sterve, would propone to her Majestie to send to other countries for more, you would even say that he had no common sens. To which I answered, she is but one, and non of her quality, I am assured, ar begging heir, much lest sterving; and that which her Majesty will bestow upon her, being devyded among many, would not give them great relieffe, nor the want of it bring them great domage.

From: A BREIFFE NARRATION of THE SERVICES DONE to THREE NOBLE LADYES by GILBERT BLAKHAL, preist of the Scots Mission in France, in The Low Countries, and in Scotland. Published 1844. The text itself has to be mid or late-17th century English.

Haha, 'rouined' - Stewie Griffin!

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I protest to Almighty God, said he, ther be ladies heir in Paris of Lorrain, who haue had in their own countrie tenne thousand livres of rent, begging heir, and wil thank me when I give them five solz of the almes which the Cardinal de Richelieu did leave to be distributed among the pouer people. Think you, would not the Quene, or should she not, rather bestow her charity upon theis ladyes, whom the French armies have rouined, then send to Scotland for to bring a ladye out of it, to bestow her charity upon? The ladyes of Lorraine are sterving here, and the Queen hath not aneugh to keepe in their lyffes, and you would persuade her to send yet for more strangers to come to her to get charity. I know you think you do wel, and are more wysse then I, because your passion leadeth you so, having no other thing in your mind but that child, and how to assist her. But what would you think of another man, who, in the circumstances wherin we are, seeing many ladyes in the country like to sterve, would propone to her Majestie to send to other countries for more, you would even say that he had no common sens. To which I answered, she is but one, and non of her quality, I am assured, ar begging heir, much lest sterving; and that which her Majesty will bestow upon her, being devyded among many, would not give them great relieffe, nor the want of it bring them great domage.

From: A BREIFFE NARRATION of THE SERVICES DONE to THREE NOBLE LADYES by GILBERT BLAKHAL, preist of the Scots Mission in France, in The Low Countries, and in Scotland. Published 1844. The text itself has to be mid or late-17th century English.

Haha, 'rouined' - Stewie Griffin!