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In order, then, to act for the best, their two physicians

proposed to the tribunal to forbid, under the most severe

penalty, the purchase of any articles of clothing from the

soldiers who were about to pass. As to Don Gonzalo, his reply to

Doctor Tadino was one of his last acts at Milan, as the ill

success of the war, which had been instigated and directed by

him, caused him to be displaced in the course of the summer. He

was succeeded by Marquis Ambrosio Spinola, who had already

acquired the military celebrity in the wars of Flanders which

still endures.

Meanwhile the German troops had received definite orders to march

upon Mantua, and in the month of September they entered the duchy

of Milan.