The ambitious, and those that desir’d to be in favour with these new Masters, rid post to _Siena_, not only to carry this happy news, but also to have the priviledge of offering their service first. _Don Mario_, the Popes brother, as soon as he heard of his exaltation, immediately, without so much as putting on new clothes, as his Wife would have had him, caused a Horse to be sadled, and with two servants took his journey towards _Rome_; having first receiv’d from one and the other a number of submissive complements, not without the title of Excellence. He was thus going on, and making Castles in the Air; insomuch that he did scarce see those that came to meet him on his way, seeming a man in an extasie, and a body without a soul, which without doubt was gone before to take possession of his future greatness; when at some miles distance from _Siena_, he met a Gentleman, from the Pope, with Letters to him, in which his Holiness did most strictly command, that neither he, nor any of his Relations should stir from _Siena_ to go towards _Rome_, under pain of incurring their brothers indignation for ever. At this news, the poor _Don Mario_ was as if he had been thunder-struck; so that if at first he seemed a body without a soul, it was almost true now, for all his blood retired to his heart, and left him pale, like a Ghost, though otherwise corpulent enough; he was in doubt whether he should infringe these so severe commands, and continue on his way, or else obey and go home again; the first seemed dangerous, the second shameful; but at last, after some reluctancy within himself, he resolv’d to return by night to _Siena_, being asham’d to enter the City by day. Being come home he communicated his Letter to all the kindred; and though it seemed a very severe one to them, yet had they some little glimpse of hope in the ambiguous sense of these words, _Do not stir from_ Siena, _in no wise_, _till you receive a new Order from us_: from this they took occasion, not to despair of their fortune, guessing, that this proceeding was not a defect of kindness in the Pope, but some new politick trick. * * * * * The Great Duke of _Florence_, in the mean time, forgot not to send a Gentleman to visit _Don Mario_, and to present him with such things, as he thought they might need in that occasion; and by his example, many Cardinals and Princes did the same thing; particularly, all the persons of quality of _Tuscany_ failed not, every one of them, to wait upon the family of the _Chigi_. ’Tis true, that the Popes Order carried, _that they should not change their way of living_, _nor receive visits as his Relations_; but that was too hard to be executed, since it was not in their power, to hinder those that had a mind to it, from doing them that honour. * * * * *