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Henry VIII.

CHAPTER II
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040) reddish, he has now got a beard that looks like gold.

He is very accomplished, a good musician, composes well, is a capital horseman, a fine jouster, speaks French, Latin, and Spanish....

He is very fond of hunting, and never takes his diversion without tiring eight or ten horses which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he means to take, and when one is tired he mounts another, and before he gets home they are all exhausted.

He is extremely fond of tennis, at which game it is the prettiest thing in the world to see him play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture." [Footnote 74: _L.

and P., Henry VII._, i., 180, 233, 319.] [Footnote 75:_L.


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