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and had much ado to restrain his resentment ; however, he replied,
with all possible moderation, ‘God reward your majesty as you
deserve! I have the honour to inform you, I do not demand the
princess your daughter in marriage for myself; had I done so your

majesty and the princess ought to have been so far from being
offended, that you should have thought it an honour done to both.
Your majesty well knows I am one of the kings of the sea as well

 

as yourself; that the kings, my ancestors, yield not in antiquity to
any other royal families ; and that the kingdom I inherit from them
is no less potent and flourishing than it has ever been. If your .
majesty had not interrupted me, you had soon understood that the
favour I ask of you was not for myself, but for the young King of
Persia, my nephew, whose power and grandeur, no less than his