King, Georgiana Goddard: A brief account of the military orders in Spain (New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1921)

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gold he distributed every year to knights
and servants of his person: so great was his
liberality, that he desired all should have a
part of his goods and thought himself
born not for himself alone but for all the
world. Yet none taxed him with prodi-
gality though all men praised his magnif-
icence. The archbishops he had made,
for their own honour, though his familiars,
were not of his family ; but he gave lodging,
allowance and benefactions to eight bishops
at the least, and the Master of Alcantara
D. Gutierre de Sotomayor.
The great love of the King for this
strong lover of his would seem to have been,
by a law of nature, the romantic affection
of the gentle for the strong; his duty to
the King he took to involve the care of
him in all kinds, even in his use of God’s
creatures, his table and his wife.
This is the
Loyal
Servitor
V. p. 173
By necessity the Master stood alone,
A Queen’s
except for his household and following, for
whosoever would have tyrannized the
King found him in the way. Therefore as
the Queen Mother had sent him away at
the commencement, so the new Queen
ingratitude
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