This demand could not be considered as in itself un-
reasonable ; and if personal feeling was combined with
other motives to induce Henry to press it, personal
feeling did not affect the general bearing of the ques-
tion. The king's desire was publicly urged on public
grounds, and thus, and thus only, the pope was at
The mar- liberty to cousidcr- it. The marriages of
princes af- princcs havc cvcr been affected by other con-

fected by "^ , ,

other con- sidcratious than those which influence such

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