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384 her. The Queen of France, being a Spaniard, would not, he thought, be welcome: 'the sight of a Spanish dress being as hateful in the King of England's eyes as the devil himself.' In other respects the reception should be as magnificent as possible, 'and I beseech you,' he concluded, 'keep out of the Court deux sortes de gens, the Imperialists, and the wits and mockers; the English can endure neither of them.'

Through the tone of this language the contempt is easily visible with which the affair was regarded in the French Court. But for Francis to receive in public the rival of Queen Catherine, to admit her into his family,