THE LETTERS OF KING HENRY VIII

whom he calleth his subjects, so that if the King's Majesty should
enter into such a party with him, the said Emperor might keep
his Grace in a continual war at his own will and pleasure, which
with friendship cannot (without a much further and greater
consideration and respect than for such alliance) be desired.
Wherefore the said Sir Thomas Wyatt shall require the said
Emperor with his wisdom to weigh and consider this point;
and then he shall perceive the King's Majesty cannot without too
great an inconvenience agree to the same.

The second is, the condition for the marriage for the King's
Highness own person, wherein his Majesty findeth also great
causes of some longer delay before it could grow to any certain
end and conclusion; not only for that his Grace, prudently con-
sidering how that marriage is a bargain of such nature as must
endure for the whole life of man, and a thing whereof the
pleasure and quiet, or the displeasure and torment of the man's
mind doth much depend, thinketh it to be much necessary both
for himself and the party with whom it shall please God to join
him in marriage, that the one might see the other before the time
they should be so affianced, as they might not without dishonour
or further inconvenience break off; which point his Highness hath
largely set forth heretofore, and likewise at this last conference
to the said Emperor's ambassadors; but also, because there
appeareth both a great charge, and no less difficulty in obtaining
of her inheritance in Denmark, which at the first setting forth of
the overture of that marriage was alleged as a special mean to
cause his Majesty to look towards her: for, by the treaty of her
marriage with the late Duke of Milan, she renounced, and was
bound to renounce, all her right and tide of Denmark, with all
the parties of the same to her elder sister, wife to Duke Frederick
Count Palatine; so as the whole interesse there remaining by that
pact in the said Duke Frederick's wife, if the King's Majesty
should mind any title thereto, he must in that case agree to the
whole with the said Duke Frederick: and when he should have
agreed with him for it, yet it would not be obtained without
great aid, charge, .adventure, and difficulty, which, before any
conclusion should be taken, ought to be well weighed and con-
sidered, and will require a time of good deliberation, specially