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[He tells us, (saies he) Folio 487. that all our Marriages with Spain have been unfortunate to this Crown,* and then ravells into the story of the Black Prince (as if he had Married in Spain) this is his own inference, not mine.

No lesse then 487. Fol. from the Preface▪ where we left him; it seemes I must skip thither too. I speaking of Prince Charles his Treaty with Spain, However (said I) the ill successe of our former marriages and medlings with that Nation, being malignant to us; witnesse the Black Prince his Voyage into Spain, to settle Don Piedro, &c▪ his body either corrupted by the aire, or by their Drugs impoysoned. What is this to any Marriage? But then indeed▪ I in∣stance our ill successe in Prince A•thurs suddain death, with Ka∣tharine of Austr•a; and Mary of England, with Philip of Spain. Now, said I, to paralell those abroad with others at home to our own Subjects, the first, with Edward the fourth; the last, with Henry the eighth, from them there proceeded two Queens, Eliza∣beths, as never could produce greater examples of happinesse to Eng∣land. But our Libeller hath a malice to our French Matches, and comparatively gores them through the Spanish sides▪ It may be so, both have been bad enough, what's that to me? Yet, in this, I de∣sire to satisfie another, not you.