You are not asking peace from me, you are asking that from Wladyslaw. I ask that I see the document so I can approve of it, or suggest some additions or alterations. I am concerned about my borders, and this would be of great interest, since my first few years of warfare were in preserving the peace along this border. If I were to neglect this border when peace can be resumed, and it would be a threat to my national interests, I would not be thinking of the hundreds of Poles fighting for the Catholics of Smolensk, and freeing the boyars to vote as they will, to decide policy, and involve themselves in their government, and provide a more popular and productive government.
Do not tell me what I am or am not to do. If you would persist in this, then I may well advise you on matters of rebel Russian state, something I would be ignorant of.
I tell you once. Please produce this peace document, so that all the world can see what you are suggesting, and so that I can rest safe in my bed, knowing that Russia is governed by a fair and just rulers, not by a madman.
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