Witness the _Pope’s_ own expressions to those Ambassadours and Cardinals, who for the quiet of _Italy_ did endeavour to take up the business. The Venetian Ambassadour above all did concern himself very much in the business, following the Orders of his Senate; which does wisely fore-see and endeavour to take away all causes of a War in _Italy_: and as he was pressing the _Pope_ upon the business, his Holiness answered him, _That it was a great affliction to him that he had introduced his Kindred into_ Rome; _for else he would either have broke himself_, _or have made_ France _bend_. But the Ambassadour who was very ready in all occasions, but particularly prepared upon this, answered him, _If your Holiness had never brought your Kindred into_ Rome, _this accident had not happened_. To which the _Pope_ replyed suddenly, _Well then_, _we must make all well again_, _to the Churches prejudice_, _and our Kindreds advantage_. The like discourse he had with _Monsignor Rasponi_ (who now is Cardinal) and was then created Plenipotentiary for the Treaty of _Pisa_, after he had in vain been sent to _Lyons_, to make an agreement; for there the business was crossed with a thousand difficulties, amongst which the precedency was one. The _Pope_ was brought into such a Labyrinth, that he did almost lose his wits in seeking how to come out of it; for on one side the affection of his Family did continually solicite him to yield to the great pretensions of the French King; on the other, the _Decorum_ and honour of his Pontificate, which would be blurr’d with the infamy of having given away so much of the Dignity and Profits of the Church, did make him resolve to be constant, and bate nothing of that respect and Majesty which the _Popes_ do use to expect from Princes: and the rather, because he had alwayes shewed himself a singular defender of the Pontifical Dignity, and could not endure to be forced to submit to a Crown for which he had never had any great inclination. For all this, at last, the interest of his Kindred carried it before those of the Church; and after he had worn out all the slights and arts that the Court of _Rome_ could furnish him withal, he was forced at last to come to an agreement, as infamous for the See of _Rome_, as it was honourable for _France_.