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374 374 DEATH OF GONSALVO. PART perpetual migration. The unhappy monarch, alas ! could not fly from disease, or from himself. ^ II. June. 15 15. In the summer of 1515, he was found one night by his attendants in a state of insensibility, from which it was difficult to rouse him. He exhibited flashes of his former energy after this, however. On one occasion he made a journey to Aragon, in order to preside at the deliberations of the cortes, and enforce the grant of supplies, to which the nobles, from selfish considerations, made resistance. The king failed, indeed, to bend their intractable tempers, but he displayed on the occasion all his wonted address and resolution.^" On his return to Castile, which, perhaps from the greater refinement and deference of the people, seems to have been always a more agreeable resi- dence to him than his own kingdom of Aragon, he received intelligence very vexatious, in the irritable state of his mind. He learned, that the Great Cap- tain was preparing to embark for Flanders, with his friend the count of Urena, the marquis of Priego his nephew, and his future son-in-law, the count of Ca- bra. Some surmised, that Gonsalvo designed to 9 Carbajal, Anales, MS., ario senilis setas ; secundum namque 1513, et seq. — L. Marineo, Cosas agit et sexagesimum annum : uxor, Memorables, fol. 188. — Gomez, quam a latere nunquam abigit : et De Rebus Gestis, fol. 146. — San- venatus cosloque vivendi cupiditas, doval. Hist, del Emp. Carlos V., quae ilium in sylvis detinet, ultra torn. i. p. 27. quam in juvenili setate, citra salu- " Non idem est vultus," says tem, fas esset." Opus Epist., Peter Martyr of the king, in a let- epist. 529. ter dated in October, 1513, " non ^° Zurita, Anales, torn. vi. lib. eadem facultas in audiendo, non 10, cap. 93,94. — Carbajal, Anales, eadem lenitas. Tria sunt illi, ne MS., ailo 1515. — Peter Martyr, priores resumat vires, opposita : Opus Epist., epist. 550.