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&quot; religious war which the King of Spain now maketh, 

 &quot; and hath almost brought to perfection, for the re- 

 &quot; covery of the realm of Granada from the Moors. 

 &quot; And although this enterprise may seem vast and 

 &quot; unmeasured, for the king to attempt that by his 

 &quot; own forces, wherein heretofore a conjunction of 

 &quot; most of the Christian princes hath found work 

 &quot; enough ; yet his Majesty wisely consid^reth, that 

 &quot; sometimes smaller forces being united under one 

 &quot; command, are more effectual in proof, though not so 

 &quot; promising in opinion and fame, than much greater 

 &quot; forces, variously compounded by associations and 

 &quot; leagues, which commonly in a short time after 

 &quot; their beginnings turn to dissociations and divisions. 

 te But, my lords, that which is as a voice from heaven, 

 &quot; that calleth the king to this enterprise, is a rent at 

 &quot; this time in the house of the Ottomans. I do not 

 &quot; say but there hath been brother against brother in 

 &quot; that house before, but never any that had refuge 

 &quot; to the arms of the Christians, as now hath Gemes, 

 &quot; brother unto Bajazet that reigneth, the far braver 

 &quot; man of the two, the other being a monk and a phi- 

 CJ losopher, and better read in the Alcoran and 

 &quot; Averroes, than able to wield the sceptre of so war- 

 &quot; like an empire. This therefore is the king our 

 &quot; master s memorable and heroical resolution for an 

 &quot; holy war. And because he carrieth in this the 

 &quot; person of a Christian soldier, as well as of a great 

 &quot; temporal monarch, he beginneth with humility, 

 &quot; and is content for this cause to beg peace at the 

 (i hands of other Christian kings. There remaineth 



