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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: him as vassal tributary to Rome; of a million of gold to be paid by
the pope, one-half down at once, the other half when London was
taken; of Cardinal Allen writing and printing busily in the
Netherlands, calling on all good Englishmen to carry out, by
rebelling against Elizabeth, the bull of Sixtus the Fifth, said (I
blush to repeat it) to have been dictated by the Holy Ghost; of
Inquisitors getting ready fetters and devil's engines of all sorts;
of princes and noblemen, flocking from all quarters, gentlemen
selling their private estates to fit out ships; how the Prince of
Melito, the Marquess of Burgrave, Vespasian Gonzaga, John Medicis,
Amadas of Savoy, in short, the illegitimate sons of all the
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