The Embassador, perceiving the simplicity of the Person, answer’d him laughing, _Father_, _I am no Son of a Covent_; _but indeed I send Sons to the Covent_, _of whom perhaps your Fathership is one_. The Cardinal finding his error, thought to mend it by replying to the Embassador, _Your Excellence may please to excuse __me_; _for the remembrance of the Capucines is so fresh my mind_, _that I take all for Capucines that speak with me_: The Embassadour laught; and rising up, said, _’Tis well_, _my Lord_, _I will be gone then_, _that I may not be accounted a Capucine by your Eminence_. Moreover, whilst Ministers of Princes talk’d with him of matters of State, the answers he return’d were about watering of Gardens, sweeping of hutches, ordering of Vestries, rising in the morning, entring into the Choire, begging Alms, and so of all such other things, wherein he was a Master. Nor did he make any difference of persons in his Conferences, but us’d the same Style to every body, _Your Fathership will pardon me_. And in his Complements with Embassadours Royal, he would often say, _I shall accompany you to the door of the Cloister_. I might relate a thousand such stories, but I will not lengthen the work more than I ought; although there is scarce any Nephew of _Popes_ whose mean and carriage, after their sudden advancement to the degree of Princes, affords me not matter for a long discourse. ’Tis enough that publick Ministers cannot forbear laughter and scorn in their negotiating with them which serve to inform them of their infirmities. Whence the Embassadour _Justiniani_, being ask’d one day, _whether he was goeing to negotiate with_ Astalli? Answer’d, _Not to negotiate with him_, _but to instruct him_. And indeed, such instruction is extreme necessary to the best of them. But that which displeases them most, is, that after much pains taken to instruct them, they must lose the fruits thereof, and begin all the same course over again with their Successors. The last difficulty in managing affairs with the Nephews, ariseth from their incomparable Avarice, which is so predominant in them, that they appear meer insensible Statues in every thing else, but in studying the means how to make themselves great. _Boniface_ the ninth was the most dextrous, subtle, and ingenious _Pope_ for accumulating wealth, that ever sate in the _Vatican_; whence he was wont to say, _That he had rather have a little Fish in hand_, _than a great Dolphin in the main Sea_; And at other times, _That an Egg in the morning is better than a Hen at night_. And accordingly, he was contented to lose the interest of a whole year to anticipate the payment of a day, and he alwaies made his Receivers bring him every night the money they had collected; and sometimes he would sit up till midnight expecting them, in regard he could not sleep otherwise through fear of being undone.