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LONDON:

SHACHELE AND ARBOWSMITH, JOHNSON'S-COURT,

BLIGHTED AMBITION,

&c.

CHAPTER I.

You were us'd

To say extremity was the tirer of spirits;
That common chances, common men would bear;
That when the sea was calm, all boats alike
Shew'd mastership in floating. Fortune's blows,
When most struck home, being gently warded, crave
A noble cunning. You were used to load me
With precepts that would make invincible
The heart that conn'd them.

CORIOLANUS.

In a few days after the Earl of Somerset had visited the King at Hampton Court, the Privy Council resolved upon sending Sir Thomas Overbury as ambassador into the Low Countries to the Archduke. The great object of Cecil

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