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266 266 REIGN AND DEATH OF PHILIP. PART To accomplish this, the king was compelled to '. — draw largely on the royal patrimony in Naples, as well as to make liberal appropriations of land and rents in his native dominions. As all this proved insufficient, he was driven to the expedient of re- plenishing the exchequer by draughts on his new subjects.^* Gcnp™i.iis- 'pijg result, although effected without violence or disorder, was unsatisfactory to all parties. The Angevins rarely received the full extent of their demands. The loyal partisans of Aragon saw the fruits of many a hard-fought battle snatched from their grasp, to be given back again to their ene- mies. ^^ Lastly, the wretched Neapolitans, instead of the favors and immunities incident to a new reign, found themselves burdened with additional imposts, which, in the exhausted state of the coun- try, were perfectly intolerable. So soon were the fair expectations formed of Ferdinand's coming, like most other indefinite expectations, clouded over by disappointment ; and such were some of the bitter fruits of the disgraceful treaty with Lcuis the Twelfth. 2^ 34 Giannone, Istoria di Napoli, corsair in the Levant. Hist, de lib. 30, cap. 1. — Summonte, Hist. Esi)aria, torn. ii. lib. 29, cap. 4. di Napoli, torn. iv. lil). 0, c;ip. 5. '^'^ If any one would see a per- — Buonaccorsi, Diario, p. 129. — feet specimen of the triumph of Guicciardini, Istoria, torn. iv. p. 71. style, let him compare the inter- 3iJ Such, for example, was the minable prolixities of Zurita with fate of the dougjity liitie cavalier, Mariana, wlio, in this i)ortion of his Pedro de la Paz, the frallant Leyva, narrative, has embodied the facts so celebrated in the subsequent and opinions of his ])redecessor, wars of Ciiarles V., the ambassa- witii scarcely any alteration, save dor Rojas, the Quixotic Parcdes, tiiat of greater condensation, in his and others. The last of these ad- own transparent and harmonious venturers, according to Mariana, diction. It is quite as great a mir- endeavoured to repair liis broken aclo in its way as the rifaciviento fortunes, by driving the trade of a of Hcrni.