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&quot; distracted between several passions, the one of fear 

 &quot; to be known, lest the tyrant should have a new 

 &quot; attempt upon me ; the other of grief and disdain 

 &quot; to be unknown, and to live in that base and servile 

 &quot; manner that I did ; I resolved with myself to ex- 

 &quot; pect the tyrant s death, and then to put myself 

 &quot; into my sister s hands, who was next heir to the 

 &quot; crown. But in this season it happened one Henry 

 &quot; Tudor, son to Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, 

 &quot; to come from France and enter into the realm, and 

 &quot; by subtile and foul means to obtain the crown of 

 &quot; the same, which to me rightfully appertained : so 

 &quot; that it was but a change from tyrant to tyrant. 

 &amp;lt;( This Henry, my extreme and mortal enemy, so 

 &quot; soon as he had knowledge of my being alive, 

 &quot; imagined and wrought all the subtile ways and 

 &quot; means he could to procure my final destruction ; 

 &quot; for my mortal enemy hath not only falsely sur- 

 &quot; mised me to be a feigned person, giving me nick- 

 &quot; names, so abusing the world ; but also, to defer 

 &quot; and put me from entry into England, hath offered 

 &quot; large sums of money to corrupt the princes and 

 &quot; their ministers, with whom I have been retained ; 

 &quot; and made importune labours to certain servants 

 &quot; about my person, to murder or poison me, and 

 &quot; others to forsake and leave my righteous quarrel, 

 &quot; and to depart from my service, as Sir Robert 

 &quot; Clifford, and others. So that every man of reason 

 &quot; may well perceive, that Henry, calling himself 

 &quot; King of England, needed not to have bestowed 

 &quot; such great sums of treasure, nor so to have busied 



