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that moft illuftrious nobleman, worthy of eternal memory and heavenly 

 glory, for his wife and juft government, this fame Albornos wrote 

 flanderous and malignant letters of him, as he had done before of Cor- 

 tes. The letters which related to Den Anthonio were all returned from 

 Caftille, into the hands of that nobleman, and when he had read them, 

 with all the perfonal abufe of himfelf that they contained, he fent for 

 Albornos, and fhewing them to him, fold in his mild and flow man- 

 ner of fpeaking, '' whenever you choofe ta make me the fubje(^t of 

 ** your letters to his Majefty, mind that in future you tell the truth; 

 " and now go about your bufinefs, for a knave as you are.'* Thus he 

 left the contador, overwhelmed with confufiono 



