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of which point will rest upon these two branches : 

 what inconveniences will ensue with time, if the 

 realms stand as they are divided, which are yet not 

 found nor sprung up. For it may be the sweetness 

 of your majesty s first entrance, and the great bene 

 fit that both nations have felt thereby, hath covered 

 many inconveniences : which, nevertheless, be your 

 majesty s government never so gracious and politic, 

 continuance of time and the accidents of time may 

 breed and discover, if the kingdoms stand divided. 



The second branch is ; allow no manifest or im 

 portant peril or inconvenience should ensue of the 

 continuing of the kingdoms divided, yet on the other 

 side, whether that upon the farther uniting of them, 

 there be not like to follow that addition and increase of 

 wealth aud reputation, as is worthy your majesty s 

 virtues and fortune, to be the author and founder of, 

 for the advancement and exaltation of your majesty s 

 royal posterity in time to come ? 



But admitting that your majesty should proceed 

 to this more perfect and entire union, wherein your 

 majesty may say, &quot; Majus opus moveo ;&quot; to enter into 

 the parts and degrees thereof, I think fit first to set 

 down, as in a brief table, in what points the nations 

 stand now at this present time already united, and in 

 what points yet still severed and divided, that your 

 majesty may the better see what is done, and what is 

 to be done ; and how that which is to be done is 

 to be inferred upon that which is done. 



The points wherein the nations stand already 

 united are : 



