Un Bouffon dit un jour au Roy _François_ qu’il avoit un Livre de Fous où il avoit écrit le nom de l’Empereur _Charles Quint_. Le Roy lui en demanda la Raison: _Parce_, dit il, _qu’en passant par la_ France, _il s’expose à être arrêté_, Maïs que diras-tu, continua le Roy, si non seulement je le laisse passer, mais encore, si je lui livre les Places que je lui ai promises: _Sçavez-vous_, repondit le Bouffon, _ce que je ferai? J’ôterai de mon Livre le Nom de_ Charles Quint, _& je mettrai le vôtre en sa Place._ 37 _Alphonsus_ King of _Aragon_ was so liberal, that he some times gave away whole Cities and Dutchies, and took away great part of the Taxes from his People, which gave him the Sir-name of _Bored-hand_, and as one told him that his Donatives were excessive, he said, _The chief care of a King ought to be to enrich his Subjects, and let these be never so rich, the Prince is never the poorer_. 37 _Alphonse_ Roy d’_Aragon_ étoit si liberal, qu’il donnoit quelquefois les Villes, & les Duchez, & remit à son Peuple une grande partie des Impôts, c’est ce qui le fit appeller _Main-percée_; & comme on lui temoignoit que ses Largesses étoient excessives, il disoit: _Le principal Soin d’un Roy, doit être d’enrichir ses Sujects, car quelques riches qu’ils soient, le Prince n’en devient pas plus pauvre_. 38 The same King used to say: _To live quiet in Marriage, the Husband ought to be Deaf, that he mayn’t hear his Wifes Brawling and Impertinence: and the Wife Blind, that she may not see her Husbands Debauchery._ 38 Ce même Roy disoit ordinairement: _Pour vivre dans le Mariage, il faut que le Mari soit Sourd, afin qu’il n’entende pas les Impertinences et les Criailleries de sa Femme; et que la Femme soit Aveugle pour ne voir point toutes les Debauches de son Mari._ 39 King _Alphonsus_ being Sick, and having try’d several Remedies to no purpose, He left them all, and betook himself to the reading of _Quintus Curtius_’s History: He was so much delighted with it, that by degrees his Disease abated, and at last being fully recover’d, he said, _Farewel_ Hypocrates, _farewel_ Avicenna, _and all Physick_; _long live_ Quintus Curtius _my true Physician_. 39 Le Roy _Alphonse_ étant malade aprés avoir tenté en vain plusieurs Remedes, il les abandonna entierement, & se mit à lire l’Histoire de _Quinte-Curse_. Le plaisir qu’il y prit soulagea peu à peu son mal, & enfin se voyant gueri, il dit: _Adieu_ Hyppocrate, _Adieu_ Avicenne, _& toute la Medecine_: _Vive_ Quinte-Curse, _mon veritable Medecin_. 40 King _Henry_ the IV_th._ having a Book of some Regulations for the State, shewn him by his Taylor, and compos’d by him, said to one of his Officers: _Let my Chancellour come to me this minute to make me a Sute of Cloaths, since my Taylor will pretend to make Regulations_. 40