Of the two Nephews of _Innocent_ the tenth, the one legitimate, the other adopted, we have spoken sufficiently, and need not rub the sore again; in regard they manifested themselves altogether unexpert, the one by renouncing the Hat, as unable to bear the weight of command; and the other by being expell’d the City, for venturing to command beyond his understanding. For all this _Innocent_ introduced them to a vast Government, and laid upon their backs that world which the most expert are hardly able to sustain. What shall we say of _Don Mario_, _Don Augustino_, and Cardinal _Flavio_? What Governments, Employments, and Charges had they ever possess’d in their lives? Was it not a fine sight to see _Don Mario_, who had never worn a Sword in his life, declared _Generalissimo_ of the Holy Church, receiving at the same time, with the General’s Truncheon, a Licence to keep the Sword alwaies in the Scabbard? For when he offered to draw it, and swore to defend the Church with it, the _Pope_ dispens’d with him; saying, _Brother_, _put thy Sword up into thy Scabbard_, _if thou wilt have part in my Kingdom_. To which Command _Don Mario_ hath been alwaies obedient. When the Cardinal was called to the Government, he was reading the Fables of _Æsop_, and _Don Augustino_ was making love to a little Courtisan of _Siena_: and yet on a sudden the latter was called from the arms of a base Strumpet, and made worthy of the Marriage of a great Princess; and the other from his Pastime of _Æsop_, was admitted to the management of the greatest Affairs, not of _Rome_ only, but of the whole World. Now what prosperous issue can Negotiations have with such a Race of Politicians? Where shall Embassadors begin, at the Head or the Tail? What devices shall they have to unfold their meaning to such as want sense? Unless all _Popes_ should imitate _Gregory_ the Fifteenth, who in the beginning of his _Papacy_ would not treat of any important matter with any Minister, but excused it by saying, _That he would stay till his Nephews were a little instructed in Political Negotiations_: And he had reason to stay, for in a short time one of them had an ambitious Whimsey came into his Crown, that he understood more than all the Cardinals, and his Uncle to boot; and accordingly he acted and commanded, without communicating with either. ’Tis a tedious thing to Princes Ministers, who are old Stagers in Councils and Affairs, to have to do with raw, unexperienced Persons, and such as are much different from the Primitive Governours of the Church; who, though introduc’d barefoot, and ill clad, and void of all experience, yet their native simplicity serv’d them very well for the preserving a virtuous Life, far from Political cunning: whereas the Nephews of the present _Pope_ enter simple, not to edifie the People, and adorn the Church with good Lives; but to Lord it over Princes by Policy not comprehensible.