Note 172 — Chapter II
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C. S. P. Eng., No. 931. The clever Italian, in this case, had more discernment than Cecil, who thought that the French would rather “yield in some part than to lose their outward things by inward contentions.”—Cecil to Elizabeth, June 21, 1560; ibid., 1560-61, No. 152, n.; Keith, 414; Wright, I, 30.