Would to God that all the Clergy were like him._ Then entring into the Cardinal’s Chamber, _Dear Coscia_, said he, embracing him, _They have accused you to me as the greatest of Sinners, and I was so weak as to think you guilty; I ask your Pardon, and I pray God to forgive me the Injury I have done you._ He afterwards joined with _Coscia_ in reading the Litanies of the Holy Virgin; and he wanted no other Proof of his being a Saint. Thus was the honest Pope made the Dupe of the greatest of Hypocrites. But, to the Pope’s Sorrow, this was not all; Cardinal _Coscia_ was not the only Man who abused his Credulity; for all that served him being _Beneventines_, and as cunning as _Coscia_, whose Creatures they were, they tried who should bubble the Pope most; which made Cardinal _Buoncompagno_ say, _That the Pope was like the Holy Sepulchre, in the Hands of the_ Turks. This good Pope never knew what Money was, nor the Value of it; but gave away all that he had, and especially to the Poor, for whose Relief he sold all the Presents he received. He could never understand how a Piece of Gold could be sometimes worth less than a Piece of Silver; and I have been told, that one Day, as he was selling some Presents he had received from the Emperor of _China_, to his unworthy _Beneventines_, one of them offered thirty Crowns for a thing that was perhaps worth five hundred. Another came and offered a gold Crown-piece. The Pope, surprized at the golden Proffer, said to him that had offered the thirty Crowns, ‘I am sorry I can’t let you have the Thing; you offered me only Silver, but here’s one offers me Gold; what I sell, is for the Poor, and I will not wrong them.’ Accordingly, he that held out the gold Coin had the Preference; and thus did those Knaves juggle together to trick the Pope. They had one common Purse, and what they bought of the Holy Father at their own Price, they sold afterwards in ROME, and shared the Profit. At the Beginning of his Pontificate, the Governor of ROME having complained to him that _Pharao_ and _Basset_ proved the Ruin of a great many People, he answered him smartly, _Alas! are not you the Governor? Send the Gamesters to the Gallies._ He never loved to talk of State Affairs, and would never read the Relations given by Nuncios, who, he said, were only Newsmongers and Spies, with whom he did not care to have any Concern; nor would he ever advance them to the Purple, but always put them back, tho’ perhaps the Term of their Nunciature had been long expired.