Count Adolphus VIII

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    “While fortune smiles, you’ll count your friends by scores;
    If the sky clouds over, you will be alone.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    “I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus. Thus all men almost be in variety and discord.”
    —Henry VIII (1491–1547)