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this real me, you have made choise of the least sufficient : LlB - vn - 

 and in trueth, I find myself so incapable of a charge of so 

 great importance, that I know not what to doe, but to 

 beseech the Creator of all created things, that he will 

 favour mee, and I intreate you all to pray unto him for me.&quot; 

 These words uttered, hee began again to weepe. 



CHAP. XXL Ifow ^^onfl t ru)/la ordered tlie service of liix lionse, 

 and uf ihe warrc lice made for Jtis coronation. 



He that in his election made such shew of humilitie 

 and mildenes, seeing himselfe king, beganne presently to 

 discover his aspiring thoughts. The first was, he com- 

 maundcd that no plebeian should serve in his house, nor 

 beare any royall office, as his predecessours had vsed till 

 then ; blaming them that would be served by men of base 

 condition, commaunding that all the noble and most famous 

 men of his mil me should live within his pallace, and exer 

 cise the offices of his court, and house. Wherevnto an olde 

 man of great authentic (who had sometimes beene his 

 Schoolemaister) opposed himselfe, advising him to be care- 

 full what hee did, and not to thrust himselfe into the danger 

 of a great inconvenience, in separating himselfe from the 

 vulgare and common people, so as they should not dare to 

 looke him in the face, seeing themselves so reiected by him. 

 He answered, that it was his resolution, and that lie would 

 not allow the plebeians to goe thus mingled among the 

 Nobles, as they had doonc, saying that the service they did 

 was according to their condition, so as the kings got no 

 reputation, and thus he continued firme in his resolution. 

 Hee presently commanded his counsell to dismisse all the 

 plebeians from their charges and offices, as well those of his 

 houshold as of his court, and to provide knightcs, the which 

 was done. After, lie went in person to an enterprise neces- 



