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quiet is intermingled, not with jealousy alone, but 

 with restraint. 



The states of Germany have had for the most 

 part peaceable times ; but yet they yield to the state 

 of England ; not only in the great honour of a great 

 kingdom, they being of a mean style and dignity, 

 but also in many other respects both of wealth and 

 policy. 



The state of Savoy having been in the old duke s 

 time governed in good prosperity, hath since (not 

 withstanding their new great alliance with Spain, 

 whereupon they waxed insolent, to design to snatch 

 up some piece of France, after the dishonourable 

 repulse from the siege of Geneva) been ofter dis 

 tressed by a particular gentleman of Dauphiny ; 

 and at this present day the duke feeleth, even in 

 Piedmont beyond the mountains, the weight of the 

 same enemy ; who hath lately shut up his gates and 

 common entries between Savoy and Piedmont. 



So as hitherto I do not see but that we are as 

 much bound to the mercies of God as any other 

 nation ; considering that the fires of dissension and 

 oppression in some parts of Christendom, may serve 

 us for lights to shew us our happiness ; and the 

 good estates of other places, which we do congra 

 tulate with them for, is such, nevertheless, as doth 

 not stain and exceed ours ; but rather doth still 

 leave somewhat, wherein we may acknowledge an 

 ordinary benediction of God. 



Lastly, we do not much emulate the greatness 

 and glory of the Spaniards ; who having not only 

 excluded the purity of religion, but also fortified 



