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74 taken down from the Gates, and buried, and so farre from revenge that he willingly pardoned the greatest offences against him; for a Ruffian intending his death, wounded him in the side with his Sword, what time he lay a prisoner in the Tower, and being restored to his kingly estate, he freely forgave the fact; and another like Ruffian striking him on the face, he punished with this only reprehension: 'Forsooth you are to blame to strike me, your anointed King': for these and his other patient vertues, King Henry the Seventh assayed to have him canonized a Saint, but Pope Julius the Second demanding too great a summe, the King went no further in the suite: notwithstanding in the repute of the vulgar he was taken for no less, so as his red Hat which he had worne, healed the headache when it was put on, as the simple beleeved."