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 hand of Corregio.

Lastly, To The Capucins, in whose Church lies buried my Noble Heroe, Alexander Farnese Duke of Parma, whom I cannot meet in this my Voyage without a Compliment. He was the Third Duke of Parma, but the Tenth Worthy. Indeed his leaping the first man into the Turks Galleys in the battle of Lepanto, with Sword in hand, and in the Eighteenth year onely of his age, was such a Prognostik of his future worth; his reducing Flanders again, with the prodigious actions done by him at the taking of Antwerp, was such a making good of the Prognostick; and his coming into France in his Slippers and Sedan to succour Rouen besieged by Henry the IV, was such a crowning of all his other actions, that his History begets belief to Quintus Curtius, and makes men believe, that Alexanders can do any thing.

The Revenues of this Prince are said to be Six hundred thousand Crowns a year. He is now of the