Chaise_, will meet in the squadrons of _Pluto_ with more invenom’d dragoons, than those they let loose against their poor countrymen in _France_: ’twill be their employment to keep this _Menagerie_ clean, whose stench would otherwise poison the rest of hell. That renegado _Pelisson_ too makes so odious a figure here, that he frights the boldest of our jaylors; and his eyes, red with crying for his sins, which were so much the greater, because they were voluntary, make him asham’d to look anyone in the face. Our learned think him profoundly ignorant; yet you must be the _Trajan_ of that _Pliny_, for he is now writing your history in such a terrible manner, that it will but little resemble that which your pensionary wits are composing. The voyage having made him lose some part of his memory, and forget the particulars of your virtues; he will therefore take me for his model, and draw my life under your name. Tho’ your dear [3] _Dulcinea_, whose head he dresses like a girl’s, at the age of threescore and ten, makes the court of _Proserpine_ rejoice before-hand; yet the deformed [4] author of the comical romance, cannot laugh, as facetious as he is; I will tell you no more, because some may think I give this counsel out of my private interest; for having been always ambitious, it would doubtless grieve me to see a more wicked and cruel tyrant than myself; but on the faith and word of one that endures the sharpest of torments, ’tis pure compassion. _I am Yours_, &c. LEWIS _the_ XIV_th’s Answer_.