But when it hapned that his occasions drew himself thither, and consequently oblig’d him to treate personally with the Nephews of _Pope Urban_, he speedily reform’d the ill impression made in his mind against his Ministers, knowing then very well, by his own experience, that all the damages, he sustain’d in that affair, were derived from the ill-will was borne him by the _Barberini_: Whereupon as he went from _Rome_ he let these words fall, _That the Church indeed is a holy body_, _of which the Princes are the Members_, _and the_ Pope _the Head_; _but the Nephews by their ill management do daily discompose the Members_, _not at all regarding how thereby they prejudiced the Head_. And to say the truth, the _Pope’s_ Nephews cannot oftentimes distinguish, what difference there is betwixt a Prince and his Minister; nor what respect the Court ought to shew to them which come to honour it. The Church-mens understanding, to accommodate the Church so well to the benefit of their proper interest, makes many believe the subtilty of them in politick affairs to be very great. And truly, the conceipt is not ordinary, which most men have of the politick understanding of the Ecclesiasticks; every one knowing that the City of _Rome_, in the Art of Governing and making others reasons conform to its will, hath ever been in all times and ages the truest School of Policy, and almost, if not altogether, the Mistris of all Nations: as she who, at her birth from the belly of the rest by a special gift of nature, brought with her into the world the most polite Endowments and refined Customs she could bestow upon her. Such were alwaies the Customs of _Rome_, who for the space of more than twelve Ages past, knew very well to frame conformable maximes to their own designs. But after that the _Nipotismo_ began to take possession of an Authority, not limited otherwise than by their own passions, every thing began to put on a new countenance. And having renounced the true and ancient Rules of Government, and found new methods of deport to those who make addresses to them, the Agents and Ministers of Foraign Princes, who come thither to negotiate their Masters affairs, mistake the way that others use to walk in with so much reputation. From whence it happens, that there are very few return from their Negotiations there without just occasion of complaint; not only that they have not met with due civilities, but that they have likewise been deluded in all their transactions.