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The document discusses Elizabethan views of kingship, including the Great Chain of Being which held that all things were ordered in a divine hierarchy from God down to minerals. This justified the divine right of kings and absolute rule. It also discusses the king having two bodies - a physical body that dies but a political body that lives on, as well as histories serving as guides for good governance. Machiavelli

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