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&quot; former custom and practice : which was ever full 

 &quot; of forwardness and celerity to make head against 

 &quot; them, or to set upon them as soon as ever they 

 fe were in action. This he was wont to do. But 

 &quot; now, besides that he was attempered by years, and 

 &quot; less in love with dangers, by the continued fruition 

 &quot; of a crown ; it was a time when the various ap- 

 &quot; pearance to his thoughts of perils of several na- 

 &quot; tures and from divers parts, did make him judge 

 &quot; it his best and surest way, to keep his strength to- 

 &quot; gether in the seat and centre of his kingdom : ac- 

 &quot; cording to the ancient Indian emblem, in such a 

 &quot; swelling season, to hold the hand upon the middle 

 &quot; of the bladder, that no side might rise.&quot; And again, 

 &quot; All this while the rebellion of Cornwall, where- 

 &quot; of we have spoken, seemed to have no relation to 

 &amp;lt;( Perkin ; save that perhaps Perkin s proclamation 

 &quot; had stricken upon the right vein, in promising to 

 tc lay down exactions and payments, and so had made 

 &quot; them now and then have a kind thought on Perkin. 

 &quot; But now these bubbles by much stirring began to 

 &quot; meet, as they use to do upon the top of water.&quot;* 

 And his kind nature and holy feeling appear in his 

 account of the conquest of Granada, f &amp;lt;e Some- 

 &quot; what about this time came letters from 

 &quot; Ferdinando and Isabella, King and Queen of 

 &quot; Spain ; signifying the final conquest of Granada 

 &quot; from the Moors ; which action, in itself so worthy, 

 &quot; King Ferdinando, whose manner was never to lose 



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