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In the mean space, sithens it cannot otherwise be, but that his Church must be continually conversant amidst the camp of the malignant, travelling and moiling, as it were against all assaults of the enemies, which never ceass• to assay•• her with their battery, yet thi• comfort is l•st, that it cometh m•ny times to pass, that in the hote•• of all the skirmish, the victory is suddenly snatched out of the enemies •andes, a•d the holy ones depart the field with honour: and trueth it self tossed and •••m•yled, yea driven as i• were to the har• h•dge by the adversaries, doth re•over her stand••• in despite of the enemies boards, and pu••hent to flight, when they assure themselves most of the victory. Whereof having assured proof in sundry calamities, and distresses of the church many times heretofore: amongst all other was never any one pre••dent more apparent and more glorious, represented to the view of the world, then a few years past in Henry the French king:¹ and forthwith after th••, in Mary Queen of England,² and some others else where in this our later age. To prove the same to be true, sith so m•ny t•••imonie• be extant every where, […] whereof yo• […] behold with your eyes, the rest being recorded in histories as you cannot lai remember, you may well concey by the me, wh i either to be hoped for of you and yours hereafter, or else what you and yours ought speedily reforme For how often now