57/61 and P._, ii., 395.] [Footnote 76: Giustinian, _Despatches_, ii., 312; _Ven. and P._, iii., 402.] The change from the cold suspicious Henry VII. to such a king as this was inevitably greeted with a burst of rapturous enthusiasm. "I have no fear," wrote Mountjoy to Erasmus,[77] "but when you heard that our Prince, now Henry the Eighth, whom we may well call our Octavius, had succeeded to his father's throne, all your melancholy left you at once. |