of France, and finally adapted to the flattery of Philip II., according as its author's interests with the Prince of Salerno and the Duke of Urbino varied.

No substantial reward accrued to him, however, from its publication.

His compliments wasted their sweetness on the dull ears of the despot of Madrid.

In misfortune Bernardo sank to neither crime nor baseness, even when he had no clothes to put upon his back.

Yet he took the world to witness of his woes, as though his person ought to have been sacred from calamities of common manhood.