adorare appreffo di noi il fuo Dio, con venti quatro altre a fuo ellezzione, e potra cantare con loro come la Tortora alla Primavera.

'SODISFANDO noi Padre e amico noftro quefta noftra brama, farete caggione di unire in perpetua amicitia cotefti voftri Regni d'Europa • al nostro dominante Imperio, e fi abbracciranno le noftri leggi comme l'edera abbraccia la pianta, e noi medefemi Spargeremo del noftro feme reale in cotefte Provincei, rifcaldando i letti di voftri Principi con il fuoco amorofo delle noftre Amazoni, d'alcune delle quali i noftri mandatici Ambasciadori vi porteranno le Somiglianza dipinte. V. Confirmiamo di tenere in pace le due buone religiofe famiglie delli Miffionarii gli' Figlioli' d'Ignazio, e li bianchi e neri figlioli di Dominico il cui configlio degl' uni e degl' altri ci ferve di fcorta nel nostro regimento e di lume ad interpretare le divine Legge come appuncto fa lume l'oglio che fi getta in Mare. In tanto Alzandoci dal noftro Trono per Abbracciarvi, vi • di chiariamo noftro conguinto e Confederato, ed ordiniamo che questo foglio fia fengato col noftro Segno Im

periale

periale dalla noftra Citta, Capo del Mondo, il quinto giorno della terza Junatione l'anno quarto del noftro Imperio.

SIGILLO e un fole nelle cui faccia e anche quella della Luna ed in'torno tra i Raggi vi fono trapofte alcune Spada.

DICO il Traduttore che fecondo il Ceremonial di quefto Lettere e recedentiffimo fpecialmente Feffere scritto con la penna dello Struzzo virgine con la quelle non fogliofi fcrivere quei Re che le pregiere a Dio e fcrivendo a qualche altro Principe del Mondo, la • maggior Finezza che ufino, e fcrivergli con la penna del Pavone.'

A Letter from the Emperor of China to the Pope, interpreted by a Father Jefuit, Secretary of the Indies.

To you bleffed above the Bleed, great Emperor of Bishops, and Paftor of Chriftians, Difpenfer of the Oil of the Kings of Europe, Clement XI.

HE Favourite Friend of GOD,
Gionnata the VIIth, moft Pow-

erful above the moft Powerful of the
Earth, Higheft above the Highest

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under the Sun and Moon, who fits C on a Throne of Emerald of China, above 100 Steps of Gold, to interpret the Language of God to the Faithful, and who gives Life and Death to 115 Kingdoms, and 170 Iflands; he writes with the Quill of a Virgin Oftrich, and fends Health and Increase of old • Age.

BEING arrived at the time of our Age, in which the Flower of our Royal Youth ought to ripen into Fruit towards old Age, to comfort therewith the Defire of our devoted People, and to propagate the Seed of that Plant which muft protect them; We have determined to accompany our felves with an high Amorous Virgin, fuckled at the Breast of a wild Lionefs, and a meek Lamb; and imagining with our felves that your European Roman People is the Father of many unconquerable and chafte Ladies, 6 we ftretch out our powerful Arm to embrace one of them, and the fhall be one of your Nieces, or the Niece of fome other great Latin Prieft, the Darling of God's right Eye. Let the Authority of Sarah be fown in her, the Fidelity of Efther, and the Wif

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'dom of Abba. We would have her Eye like that of a Dove, which may look upon Heaven and Earth, with the Mouth of a Shell-Fish to feed upon the Dew of the Morning: Her Age must not exceed 200 Courses of the Moon; let her Stature, be equal to that of an Ear of green Corn, and her Girth a Handful.

WE will fend our Mandarine's Emballadors to clothe her, and to conduct her to us, and we will meet her on the Bank of the great River, making her to leap into our Chariot. She may with us worship her own God, together with twenty four Virgins of her own chufing; and the may fing with them, as the Turtle in the Spring. You, O Father and Friend, complying with this our Defire, may be an Occafion of uniting in perpetual Friendship our high Empire with your European Kingdoms, and we may embrace your Laws, as the Ivy embraces the Tree; and we our felves may scatter our Royal Blood into your Provinces, warming the chief of your Princes with the amorous Fire of our Amazons, the refembling Pictures of fome of which our faid

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• Mandarine's Embaffadors fhall convey to you.

WE exhort you to keep in Peace two good Religious Families of Miffionaries, the black Sons of Ignatius, and the black and white Sons of Dominicus; that the Counsel, both of the one and the other, may serve as a Guide to us in our Government, and a Light to interpret the Divine Law, as the Oil caft into the Sea produces Light.

TO conclude, we rifing up in our Throne to embrace you, we declare you our Ally and Confederate; and have ordered this Leaf to be fealed with our Imperial Signet, in our Royal City, the Head of the World, the 8th Day of the third Lunation, and the fourth Year of our Reign.

LETTERS from Rome fay, the whole Converfation both among Gentlemen and Ladies has turned upon the Subject of this Epiftle ever fince it arrived. The Jefuit who tranflated it fays, it lofes much of the Majefty of the Original in the Italian. It feems there was an Offer of the fame nature made by a Predeceffor of the prefent Emperor to Lewis the XIIIth of France, but

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