Chapter IV
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THE THREE RIVALS.
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Note 1 · The edifice which Wolsey had so laboriously built up was, however, based on no surer foundation than the feeble life of a sickly monarch alrNote 2 · She was probably fascinated less by Suffolk's virtue than by his bold and handsome bearing. A bluff Englishman after the King's own heart, hNote 3 · In January, 1515, the Duke was sent to Paris to condole with Francis on Louis' death, to congratulate him on his own accession, and renew thNote 4 · The news could not be long concealed, but unfortunately we have only Wolsey's account of how it was received by Henry. He took it, wrote theNote 5 · At Calais, Mary said she would stay until she heard from the King.[196] His message has not been preserved, but fears were never more strangNote 6 · This episode threw into the shade the main purpose of Suffolk's embassy to France. It was to renew the treaty concluded the year before, andNote 7 · Henry watched with ill-concealed jealousy his rival's victorious progress; his envy was personal, as well as political. "Francis," wrote theNote 8 · Henry now complained that Francis had concealed his Italian enterprise from him, that he was ill-treating English subjects, and interfering Note 9 · Technically, Francis had not broken his treaty with England, but he had scarcely acted the part of a friend; and if Henry could retaliate wiNote 10 · The envoy selected for this difficult mission was Richard Pace, scholar and author, and friend of Erasmus and More. He had been in BainbridgNote 11 · Maximilian retreated, said Pace, voluntarily and shamefully, and was now so degraded that it signified little whether he was a friend or an Note 12 · The failure of the Milan expedition taught Wolsey and Henry a bitter but salutary lesson. It was their first attempt to intervene in a spherNote 13 · But Wolsey still hoped that bribes would keep Maximilian faithful to England and induce him to counteract the French influences with which hNote 14 · In conveying the news to Wolsey, Tunstall begged him to urge Henry "to refrain from his first passions" and "to draw his foot out of the affNote 15 · All this riot of wealth would no doubt impress the impecunious Charles. In September he landed in Spain, so destitute that he was glad to acNote 16 · This general peace, which closed the wars begun ten years before by the League of Cambrai, was not entirely due to a universal desire to beaNote 17 · The contest now broke out in earnest, and the electors prepared to garner their harvest of gold. The price of a vote was a hundredfold more Note 18 · But was there no third candidate? Leo at heart regarded the election of either as an absolute evil.[259] He had always dreaded Maximilian's Note 19 · Whether that was its object or not the mission was foredoomed to failure. The conclusion was never really in doubt. Electors might trouble tNote 20 · Thus was completed the shuffling of the cards for the struggle which lasted till Henry's death. Francis had now succeeded to Louis, Charles Note 21 · For the present, those services were to be remembered. They were not, indeed, inconsiderable. It would be absurd to maintain that, since hisNote 22 · Piety went hand in hand with a filial respect for the head of the Church. Not once in the ten years is there to be found any expression from