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tliat Whit-Sunday. The old streets Hncd witli clergy in 

 full ecclesiastical costume ; the best blood of England 

 thronging about bluff King Hal ; the bluest blood of 

 Spain, acting as duly phlegmatic escort to the )'oung 



The Chequers of the Hope^ Canterbury. 



monarch of Castile and Aragon, Granada, Naples, 

 Sicily and Milan, Franche-Comte and the Netherlands, 

 Peru and Mexico, Tunis and Oran, and the Philippines, 

 " and all the fair spiced islands of the East," 



