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peace of Christendom, he designed from the begin 

 ning to turn his whole forces upon the Turk. Only 

 he confesseth, that agreeable to his devotion, which 

 apprehended as well the purging of Christendom 

 from heresies, as the enlarging thereof upon the 

 Infidels, he was ever ready to give succours unto 

 the French kings against the Huguenots, especially 

 being their own subjects : whereas, on the other 

 side, &quot; England/ as he affirmeth, &quot; hath not only 

 &quot; sowed troubles and dissentions in France and 

 &quot; Scotland, the one their neighbour upon the con- 

 &quot; tinent, the other divided only by the narrow seas, 

 &quot; but also hath actually invaded both kingdoms. 

 &quot; For as for the matters of the Low Countries, 

 &quot; they belong to the dealings which have passed 

 &quot; by Spain.&quot; 



In answer whereof, it is worthy the consideration 

 how it pleased God in that king to cross one passion 

 by another ; and namely, that passion which might 

 have proved dangerous unto all Europe, which was 

 his ambition, by another which was only hurtful to 

 himself and his own, which was wrath and indigna 

 tion towards his subjects of the Netherlands. For 

 after that he was settled in his kingdom, and freed 

 from some fear of the Turk, revolving his father s 

 design in aspiring to the monarchy of Europe, casting 

 his eye principally upon the two potent kingdoms 

 of France and England; and remembering how his 

 father had once promised unto himself the conquest 

 of the one ; and how himself by marriage had lately 

 had some possession of the other ; and seeing that 



