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 Thurloe [taking up a paper.]Scotland.—The Grand Provost Would fain surrender. All the North submits To the Protector. Cromwell. Well, what next? Thurloe. Next, Flanders.— The Spaniards are prepared to yield. Dunkirk To the Protector soon will be restored. Cromwell.What next? Thurloe. London.—At anchor in the Thames Are three great vessels laden with the gold That Blake hath taken from the Portuguese. Cromwell.What next? Thurloe. The Duke of Holstein sends to you Eight Friesland horses. Cromwell. Next? Thurloe. That you may see How bitterly he doth regret that he Gave Rupert shelter, Tuscany's Grand Duke, To whom Sir Robert Blake hath said a word, Sends in gold sequins all that twenty mules Can bear. Cromwell. What next?

The Oxford clerics, who Your rivals were, do choose you Chancellor Of th' University.
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The letters patent these. Cromwell.What next? Thurloe [seeking among his papers. His Majesty the Russian Czar Doth by petition humbly supplicate Of your good-will a public evidence.