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1 however, the Hate of my kingdom, I prefer its intereft to 

 4 the private affection I bear my fon ; and do, therefore, here- 

 * by appoint Za Denghel my nephew to fncceed me, and be 

 4 your king ; and recommend him to you as fit for war, ripe 

 'in years, exemplary in the practice of every virtue, and 

 fc as deferving of the crown by his good qualities, as he is by 

 4 his near relation to the royal family.' And with thefe words 

 the king expired in the end of Auguil 1595, and. was buried 

 in the ifland Roma.. 



As foon as Sertza Denghel died, the nobility refumeeT 

 their former refolutions. The very reafons the dying king 

 had given them, why Za Denghel was fitted to reign, were 

 thofe for the which they were determined to reject him ; as 

 they, after fo long a reign as the 1'aft, were perfectly weary 

 at being kept in their duty, and defired nothing more than,? 

 an infant king and a long minority: this they found ia, 

 Jacob, 



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