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Rome a fierce thundering frier, that would set all at 

 six and seven ; or at six and five, if you allude to his 

 name : and though he would after have turned his 

 teeth upon Spain, yet he was taken order with 

 before it came to that. Now there is ascended to 

 the papacy, a personage, that came in by a chaste 

 election, no ways obliged to the party of the Spa 

 niards : a man bred in ambassages and affairs of 

 state, that hath much of the prince, and nothing of 

 the frier ; and one, that though he loves the chair of 

 the papacy well, yet he loveth the carpet above the 

 chair ; that is, Italy, and the liberties thereof well 

 likewise. 



Fourthly, in eighty-eight, the king of Denmark 

 was a stranger to England, and rather inclined to 

 Spain ; now the king is incorporated to the blood 

 of England, and engaged in the quarrel of the 

 Palatinate. Then also Venice, Savoy, and the 

 princes and cities of Germany, had but a dull fear of 

 the greatness of Spain, upon a general apprehension 

 only of the spreading and ambitious designs of that 

 nation : now that fear is sharpened and pointed by 

 the Spaniards late enterprises upon the Valtoline 

 and the Palatinate, which come nearer them. 



Fifthly and lastly, the Dutch, which is the 

 Spaniards perpetual duellist, hath now, at this pre 

 sent, five ships to one, and the like proportion in 

 treasure and wealth, to that they had in eighty- 

 eight. Neither is it possible, whatsoever is given 

 out, that the coffers of Spain should now be fuller 

 than they were in eighty-eight : for at that time 



