40/58 098) two leaders were the King and the Queen Dowager of France, and all the others were lords and ladies."[248] These festivities were followed by the formal ratification of peace.[249] Approval of it was general, and the old councillors who had been alienated by Wolsey's Milan expedition, hastened to applaud. "It was the best deed," wrote Fox to Wolsey, "that ever was done for England, and, next to the King, the praise of it is due to you."[250] Once more the wheel had come round, and the stone of Sisyphus was lodged more secure than before some way up the side of the hill. and P._, ii., 3705.] [Footnote 243: _Ibid._, ii., 4022.] [Footnote 244: _Ibid._, ii., 4164, 4188.] [Footnote 245: _L. and P._, ii., 4047.] [Footnote 246: _Ibid._, ii., 4348.] [Footnote 247: Chosroes I.( Nushirvan) of Persia.] [Footnote 248: _Ven. |