330 PRIEST AND PURITAN. [1651. 



who, in their zeal to cuhivate theu* higher nature, 

 suffer the neglected body to dwindle and pine, 

 till body and mind alike lapse into feebleness and 

 disease. 



Druilletes retui'ned to the Abenaquis, and thence 

 to Quebec, full of hope that the object of his mis- 

 sion was in a fair way of accomplishment. The 

 Governor, d'Ailleboust,^ who had succeeded Mont- 

 magny, called his council, and Druilletes was again 

 dispatched to New England, together with one 

 of the principal inhabitants of Quebec, Jean Paul 

 Godefroy.^ They repaired to New Haven, and 

 appeared before the Commissioners of the Four 

 Colonies, then in session there ; but then* errand 

 proved bootless. The Commissioners refused either 

 to declare war or to permit volunteers to be raised 

 in New England against the Iroquois. The Puritan, 

 like his descendant, would not fight without a rea- 

 son. The bait of free-trade with Canada failed to 

 tempt him ; and the envoys retraced then* steps, 

 with a flat, though courteous refusal.^ 



Now let us stop for a moment at Quebec, and 

 observe some notable changes that had taken place 



1 The same who, with his wife, had joined the colonists of Montreal. 

 See ante, p. 26Jt. 



2 He was one of the Governor's council. — Ferland, Notes sur les Re- 

 gistres, 67. 



3 On Druilletes's second embassy, see Lettre ^crite par le Conseil de 

 Quebec aux Commissionaires de la Nouvdle Angleterre, in Charlevoix, I. 287 ; 

 Extrait des Registres de VAncien Conseil de Quebec, Ibid., I. 288 ; Copy oj a 

 Letter from the Commissioners of the United Colonies to the Governor of Can- 

 ada, in Hazard, II. 183 ; Answare to the Propositions presented by the hon- 

 ered French Agents, Ibid., II. 184; and Hutchinson, Collection of Papers, 

 240. Also, Records of the Commissioners of the United Colonies, Sept. 5 

 1651 ; and Conimissicn of Druilletes and Godefroy, in N.Y. Col. Docs., IX. 6 



