_ 410 _ For this reason, it is wiser that His Majesty should make peace or a truce with the Turk, since hope has been given for both by a servant of his who has recently returned from Constantinople. He has therefore given orders to his ambassador to open discussions and investigate the conditions on which the Turk is likely to consider peace or a truce. If they are such that His Majesty can accept them with honour, he will send to negotiate and conclude such a peace or truce. His Majesty therefore thinks that the proposed Embassy to Persia should be deferred for the moment. Sending ambassadors to the Turk to negotiate peace and to the Persian to persuade him to attack the Turk are things that cannot be or remain secret, as they would be discovered through spies and persons friendly to either side. This would anger both Turk and Persian, and negotiation with both would be ruined and broken off, causing much suspicion and mistrust. So until it can be seen what comes of these discussions about a peace, the other discussion about an alliance should be delayed. Nevertheless, in order that they should not entirely cease in case no peace or truce can be effected, and that time is not lost on this account, and for other legitimate reasons, His Majesty thinks that it would
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