Only eight months had gone since Henry VIII of England had been suspended in death, there to lie like Mohammeds coffin, hardly in the Church nor out of it, attended by his martyrs and the acidulous fivefold ghosts of his wives. King Francis of France, stranded by his neighbours death in the midst of a policy so advanced, so brilliant and so intricate that it should at last batter England to the ground, and be damned to the best legs in EuropeFrancis, bereft of these sweet pleasures, dwindled and died likewise.

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