To lie daily, through, thick, and thin, and with every variety of circumstance and detail which; a genius fertile in fiction could suggest, such was the simple rule prescribed by his sovereign.

And the rule was implicitly obeyed, and the English sovereign thoroughly deceived.

The secret confided only, to the faithful breast of Alexander was religiously kept.

Even the Pope was outwitted.

His Holiness proposed to, Philip the invasion of England, and offered a million to further the plan.