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 unhorsed divers of the nobility. He soon after left the city and travelled for Spain, viewing all the rarities



of that country, and at length arrived at Madrid; there he found them preparing for a war with Portugal, and he resolved to take this opportunity, raised an hundred men, and proffered the king his service. The wars ending he sailed for England, where in like manner he assisted the king in his war with the Scots. And one day as the king was entertaining him at dinner, he was so smitten in love with the fair princess Agrippina, the king's daughter, that he forgot to eat, and feasted his eyes only on her, insomuch that great notice was taking of it. He likewise