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of the fovereign, and a woman of good fenfe 

 (which fhe was not ignorant of) could take it 

 ill, that they kept the fecret from her. She 

 Ihewed her difcontentment to her fon, who an- 

 fwered, that the embaffies were fent out for the 

 fake of renewing alliances with other nations, 

 with whom they had long been at peace, and 

 who might think themfelves defpifed if they 

 were longer negle6i:ed. This difTimulated an- 

 fwer feemed to appeafe the Sun Stung Arm^ but 

 it did not take off her uneafinefs ; on the contra- 

 ry it redoubled, when fhe faw, upon the return 

 of the ambaffadors, that the Suns affembled in 

 fecret with thofe deputies, to hear how they had 

 been received, whereas fuch councils were gene- 

 rally held in public. 



The princefs was vejced at this : What, faid 

 fhe to herfelf, they hide from me what the whole 

 nation ought to know : if her prudence had not 

 checked her anger, fhe would have given vent 

 to it then. It was happy for the French that fhe 

 thought herfelf thus defpifed; fhe juftly feared 

 to augment the impoffibility of coming at the 

 fecret, if fhe laid open her difpleafure. Her ge- 

 nius fuggefled her the means of fatisfying her 

 curiofity •, fhe prevailed upon the great Sun, her 

 fon, to go with her to fee a relation who lived 

 in the village of the Apple, and vyho fhe had 



heard 



