_ 416 _ usual ruses the French always have employed, and always will, to damage them, and they have good reason to watch out that their new relative and ally does not do what he wants against them. As it may happen that the French, confident that they can devise some scheme of their usual kind in order to avoid carrying out what they have promised, if they should say that they agree to observe the three terms proposed, His Catholic Majesty begs and entreats His Imperial Majesty that if there is any question of the certainty and fulfilment of the terms, His Imperial Majesty will at all times inform him of this, and will be prepared to accept his opinion so that he can assist him with his advice and ensure that the French do not play him some trick which would deprive him of authority in exchange for the favour His imperial Majesty would render them by acceding to their petition and bestowing on them such a Princess as his daughter. As of the marriage of Prince Rudolph, His Catholic Majesty thinks very well of it since, as there is time in hand, it can be left for the future, for the reasons indicated by His Catholic Majesty and by His Imperial Majesty. As for the League, His Catholic Majesty proposed it only because of his particular wish to see His Imperial Majesty
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