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ENGLAND.
But now leaue we all other Countries, and come wee to England, from whence being descended, wee by the Lawes of Na∣ture, are eternally obliged to honour and loue it; yea to preferre it and its prosperitie and glory to all other Countries of the world; wherefore let vs see Spaines Ambition and Enuy towards it; and how he hath from time to time borne himselfe to the English.
There is no Kingdome in the world, that Spaine loues better then England.
Nor no people vnder the Sunne that it hates more then Englishmen.
For Peter King of Castille, most ingratefully and basely a∣bused our famous and generous Edward the Blacke Prince, (the Or∣nament of Armes, the Glory of England, and the Honour of the World) and his whole Army in Spaine, after that he had inthroni∣sed and seated the said Peter in his Kingdome, and with his Victori∣ous Armes expel'd Henry the Bastard, who Vsurped it.
If Spaine had not loued England and Englishmen, King Philip would neuer haue married mee.
Hee loued you well Sister, but your Kingdome farre bet∣ter, for you were the Obiect of his zeale, but England that of his Ambition.
But Elizabeth, hee hated you more then euer he loued Mary.
And yet I dare truly affirme, that King Philip loued my Kingdome farre more then euer he hated my Per•…•…on.
To speake truth Daughter, he neither loued you, nor Ma∣ry his wife and Queene, but only England.
And I haue heard that if he had neuer married my Aunt Mary, shee had neuer lost Calais, nor consequently, England, France.
Though that Match were vnfortunate to England in the losse of Calais, yet it was fortunate in that Philip and Mary had no Children.
If we had had any Males, England had beene long since a Prouince to Spaine.