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 8     The Life and glorious Actions not be lawfully returned; I am indeed your ſubject, and you may command my      life and fortune, but not in a diſhonour- able way, ſo humbly intreating you to      weigh theſe things, I remain your afflict- ed ſubject and ſervant.

SALISBURY

The King upon receipt of this letter, was not a little abaſhed ; at length concludes, time and rich preſents, might overcome her fears; he truſted his confident; the Lord Montague would bring her to court, in hon- our of whoſe preſence, the King cauſed ſports and paſtimes; and at laſt won ſo much upon her as to dance with him: When at the end of the dance, a blew rib- bon, which ſhe had for a garter, falling off the King ſtooped and took it up: At which the Counteſs bluſhed, and the nobles ſmil- ed: Whereat the King ſaid, HONI SOIT QUI MALY PENCE. Vowing, that the greateſt of them ſhould do honour to    the ſilken tye, and creating his Son Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales, he eſta- bliſhed the ORDER OF THE GARTER, con- fining the number to twenty-ſix, of which, himſelf, and his ſucceſſors were Sovereigns, which ORDER is yearly ſolemnized, with magnificence, in the King's caſtle at Wind-

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