But _the King said pleasantly_, adds Monsieur _T._ _that the Rogue_ (Coquin) du Cross _had outwitted them all_. If Monsieur _T._ had not made the King say this, and had said it himself, I might have applied to him, with as much Justice as any man in the World, these Verses which I have read somewhere, Coquin, _he calls me, with mighty disdain_. Doubtless, I should answer Monsieur _T._ thus, _Seek your_ Coquins _elsewhere, you're one your self_, But the Person of Kings is sacred. Besides, Can that be an abuse, which is spoken _pleasantly_, without the least design perhaps of offending. For _Coquin_ is a word which the Late King of _England_ often used, when he spoke of People for whom he had notwithstanding Respect and Consideration. 'Tis true, he used the word also very familiarly, when he was angry, but at such times he spoke with indignation, and not pleasantly. The Parliament presented an Address to the King (as Monsieur _T._ reports) in which they represented the Progress of the _French_ Arms, and desired him to stop it before it became more dangerous to _England_, and the other Neighbouring Countries. _Don Bernard de Salinas_ (continues Monsieur _T._) said to certain Members of the Commons, that this Address had so exasperated the King, that he said those who were the Authors of it were a Company of _Coquins_. I remembred at my Arrival in _England_, in 1675, before I was to go into _France_ in Quality of an Envoy, whither I acknowledge his most Christian Majesty would not permit me to come, either because they had informed him that I had embraced the Protestant Religion, or it may be because the King of _France_ would not receive his own Subjects, in the Quality of Ministers of other Princes. It happened, I say, that the King of _England_ (to whom also I had a Commission) bid the _Marquiss of Ruvigni_, one Evening, bring me to his Cabinet, and himself come in with me. The King enquired of me, at the first, what news I could tell him of the Condition of the _Swedes_ Army in _Pomerania_, through which I past, and exprest much concern that the _Constable Wrangle_, not minding to pass forward into the Empire (as Monsieur _T._ says) had thereby different pretences, had attacked the Elector of _Branderburg_ as vigorously and with as much success as he could. I told the King the reason, which concerns not my present subject to report here. Afterwards, I having informed the King of the State of _Germany_, the King believing that I was to pass into _France_, spoke to me in these very words. _Monsieur, tell the King, my Brother, that it is much against my mind that I have made Peace with these_ Coquins, _the_ Hollanders, _Monsieur the Marquiss of_ Ruvigny, _who stands here, knows it well_.