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the process of this action drew on a re-surprise of 

 the castle by the Thebans, a recovery of the town, 

 and a current of the war even unto the walls of 

 Sparta. I demand, was the defence of the city of 

 Sparta, and the expulsion of the Thebans out of 

 the Laconian territories, unjust ? The sharing of 

 that part of the duchy of Milan, which lieth upon 

 the river of Adda, by the Venetians, upon contract 

 with the French, was an ambitious and unjust 

 purchase. This wheel set on going, did pour a wa r 

 upon the Venetians with such a tempest, as Padua 

 and Trevigi were taken from them, and all their 

 dominions upon the continent of Italy abandoned, 

 and they confined within the salt waters. Will any 

 man say, that the memorable recovery and defence 

 of Padua, when the gentlemen of Venice, unused to 

 the wars, out of the love of their country, became 

 brave and martial the first day, and so likewise the 

 re-adeption of Trevigi, and the rest of their domi 

 nions, was matter of scruple, whether just or no, 

 because it had source from a quarrel ill begun ? 

 The war of the duke of Urbin, nephew to pope 

 Julius the second, when he made himself head of 

 the Spanish mutineers, was as unjust as unjust 

 might be ; a support of desperate rebels ; an in 

 vasion of St. Peter s patrimony, and what you will. 

 The race of this war fell upon the loss of Urbin 

 itself, which was the duke s undoubted right ; yet, 

 in this case, no penitentiary, though he had enjoined 

 him never so strait penance to expiate his first 

 offence, would have counselled him to have given 

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