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the duke of Guise without ceremony ; and yet never 

 theless found the despair of so many persons embark 

 ed and engaged in that conspiracy, so violent, as the 

 flame thereby was little assuaged ; so that he was 

 inforced to imp! ore her aids and succours. Consider 

 how benign care and good correspondence she gave 

 to the distressed requests of that king ; and he soon 

 after being, by the sacrilegious hand of a wretched 

 Jacobin lifted up against the sacred person of his 

 natural sovereign, taken away, not wherein the cri- 

 minous blood of Guise, but the innocent blood which 

 he hath often spilled by instigation of him and his 

 house was revenged, and that this worthy gentleman 

 who reigneth come to the crown ; it will not be for 

 gotten by so grateful a king, nor by so observing an 

 age, how ready, how opportune and reasonable, how 

 royal and sufficient her succours were, whereby she 

 enlarged him at that time, and preferred him to his 

 better fortune : and ever since in those tedious wars, 

 wherein he hath to do with a Hydra, or a monster 

 with many heads, she hath supported him with trea 

 sure, with forces, and with employment of one that 

 she favoureth most. What shall I speak of the offer 

 ing of Don Anthony to his fortune ; a devoted 

 catholic, only commended unto her by his oppressed 

 state ? What shall I say of the great storm of a 

 mighty invasion, not of preparation, but in act, by 

 the Turk upon the king of Poland, lately dissipated 

 only by the beams of her reputation : which with 

 the Grand Signor is greater than that of all the states 

 of Europe put together ? But let me rest upon the 



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