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HATEVER favour may be merited from a just prince, by a man born of an illustrious and very ancient family, fitted by nature for all great things, and by all sorts of learning qualified for greater; constantly employed in the study of state affairs, and with the greatest praise, and no small danger, exercising variety of offices in the government: so much does our well-beloved and very faithful counsellor  , deserve at our hands: he, who