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king, they enjoy good quiet ; yet since our peace it 

 hath passed through no small troubles, and remaineth 

 full of boiling and swelling humours ; but like, by 

 the maturity of the said king every day increasing, 

 to be repressed. 



The kingdom of Poland is newly recovered out of 

 great wars about an ambiguous election. And be 

 sides, is a state of that composition, that their king 

 being elective, they do commonly choose rather a 

 stranger than one of their own country : a great ex 

 ception to the flourishing estate of any kingdom. 



The kingdom of Swedeland, besides their foreign 

 wars upon their confines, the Muscovites and the 

 Danes, hath been also subject to divers intestine tu 

 mults and mutations, as their stones do record. 



The kingdom of Denmark hath had good times, 

 especially by the good government of the late king, 

 who maintained the profession of the gospel ; but 

 yet greatly giveth place to the kingdom of England, 

 in climate, wealth, fertility, and many other points 

 both of honour and strength. 



The estates of Italy, which are not under the 

 dominion of Spain, have had pea ce equal in con 

 tinuance with ours, except in regard of that which 

 hath passed between them and the Turk, which 

 hath sorted to their honour and commendation ; 

 but yet they are so bridled and over-awed by the 

 Spaniard, that possesseth the two principal members 

 thereof, and that in the two extreme parts, as they 

 be like quillets of freehold, being intermixed in the 

 midst of a great honour or lordship ; so as their 



