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 tions about the cloaths. Which, says my Lord the Admiral, is most obliged to the other, the Virgin Mary to sinners, or sinners to the Virgin Mary; they to her for bringing forth their Redeemer, or she to them for having made a Redeemer necessary? Pinnacle of discretion, the Friar replies, wise among the wise,

Cumbre de la discrecion de los discretes discreto.

When you went to quell the disturbances in Navarre, and procured the pardon of the guilty, if they had not been guilty you could not have obtained the honour of interceding for them; but are you indebted to them for your revolt, or they to you for your clemency? My Lord the Admiral wishes to know whether a babe in the womb has a guardian angel of his own, or if one guardian angel suffices for him and his mother before he is born. The answer of the