Note 1089 — Chapter III
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"Y quando por esta causa se aventurassen los Estados, y me viniesse á caer el mundo encima." Ibid., p. 27.
Philip seems to have put himself in the attitude of the "justum et tenacem" of Horace. His concluding hyperbole is almost a literal version of the Roman bard:—
"Si fractus illabatur orbis, Impavidum ferient ruinæ."