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 with equal heat a troop of followers; they would have built hips, or have eized them, and have wandered with him at all adventures as far as they could keep hope in their company. But the age being now pat of vagrant excurion and fortuitous hotility, he was under the neceity of travelling from court to court, corned and repuled as a wild projector, an idle promier of kingdoms in the clouds: nor has any part of the world yet had reaon to rejoice that he found at lat reception and employment.

the ame year, in a year hitherto diatrous to mankind, by the Portuguee was dicovered the paage of the Indies, and by the Spaniards the coat of America. The nations of Europe were fired with boundles expectation, and the dicoverers puruing their enterprie, made conquets in both hemipheres of wide extent. But the adventurers were contented with plunder; though