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minuter rien moins que <strong>de</strong> nous manger à belles <strong>de</strong>nts; mais j'espere que justice<br />

vault plus que violence en tout vostre Estat, et vous prie <strong>de</strong> joindre vos offices partout<br />

ou vous nous jugerez fon<strong>de</strong>z en equité et raison, sans que l'iniquité se puisse<br />

prevaloir <strong>de</strong> nostre esloignement’ ..... A la Haye, 13 e Octobre 1654.<br />

5374. Aan mevr. Stein Callenfels 1)<br />

. (K.A.)<br />

‘Je me haste à repliquer sur la response qu'il vous a pleu me faire dans la lettre <strong>de</strong><br />

M. <strong>de</strong> Stein Callenfelts pour vous supplier <strong>de</strong> ne charger pas ma sottise <strong>de</strong> Treves<br />

d'une interpretation si sinistre, que <strong>de</strong> vous appliquer ce mon tres-cher coeur, comme<br />

un tiltre entre vous et moy. J'advouë, Madame, que cela m'a faict rougir, et que je<br />

n'ay peu differer <strong>de</strong> m'en <strong>de</strong>fendre serieusement. La verité est qu'ayant veu à<br />

Vian<strong>de</strong>n que ce compliment est ordinaire entre M. Stein Callenfelts et vous, comme<br />

cela est tres-juste et raisonnable, je l'ay 2) voulu aussi employer entre vous <strong>de</strong>ux,<br />

bien loing <strong>de</strong> ceste impu<strong>de</strong>nce d'y prendre aucune part <strong>de</strong> mon costé; et en effect,<br />

Madame, si ceste sotte lettre est encor au mon<strong>de</strong>, vous n'y trouverez point <strong>de</strong><br />

discours ni <strong>de</strong> rapport que <strong>de</strong> mari à femme, ma main n'ayant servi que d'interprete<br />

entre <strong>de</strong>ux 3) ’..... 13 Octob. 1654.<br />

Onze arme vriendin Juffr. van Dorp 4) gaat erg achteruit.<br />

5375. Percy 5)<br />

. (H.A.)<br />

Since I receaved yours it si soe long that you may have forgott to have written as<br />

well as I to have receaved, had not I kept yours by me, the civility of which as well<br />

as the esteeme I have of your person obleegeth me to make you this returne, and<br />

had done it sooner, had my intention not bin interrupted both by indisposition and<br />

absence. The contents of myne was, I remember, to give you some knowledge of<br />

the miserable condition of Chateau Renard, and your answer was that, intending<br />

sale of it, noething was necessary or could be done for putting of it in a better posture,<br />

to which there is noe reply to be ma<strong>de</strong> by me, but I am very much concerned to tell<br />

you that, what with both the saisies ma<strong>de</strong> by Mons. <strong>de</strong> Bricmau and François<br />

Mouche, as well as by the noise Tassin makes, sometimes that he hath sold it to<br />

Mons. Bushuratt, sometimes to Mons. Tillier 6) , and at others to Mad. Chatillon 7) ,<br />

distracts all the tenants soe much that they will pay noething, and keepes both me<br />

and<br />

1) Kopie. - Anna Hin<strong>de</strong>rson, eene dochter van Sir Robert H. (vgl. I, blz. 114), was in 1641 gehuwd<br />

met Von Stein Callenfels (zie II, blz. 390). Huygens had met haar man door Luxemburg<br />

gereisd.<br />

2) Er staat: j'ay<br />

3) Later heeft Huygens haar nog eens geplaagd met die vergissing (vgl. Gedichten, IV, blz. 227).<br />

4) Of Dorothea (vgl. I, blz. 19) of Maria Charlotte (vgl. II, blz. 359).<br />

5) Zie No. 5360.<br />

6) Waarschijnlijk Michel le Tellier (1603-1685), secretaris van staat, later kanselier en<br />

zegelbewaar<strong>de</strong>r van Frankrijk.<br />

7) Zie No. 5366.<br />

Constantijn Huygens, Briefwisseling. Deel 5: 1649-1663

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