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Compare 1587 edition: 1 This Gentleman was verye well ſpoken, mylde of nature, wyth diſcretion ſtoute, as one that in an vpright quarel would beare no coles, ſeldome in an intricate matter grauelled, being found at all aſſayes to be of a pleaſant and pre|ſent wit.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Hauing lente to the King his Signet to ſeale a Letter, who hauing powdred Erimites engrayled in the Scale, why howe now Wiſe quoth the King. what? haſt thou Liſe here? And if it like your Maieſtie, quoth ſir Williã, a louſe is a riche Coate, for by giuing the Louſe, I part Armes with the French King, in that he gyueth the Floure de Lice. Whereat the king heartily laughed, to heare how pretily ſo byting a taunt (namely proceeding from a Prince) was ſodaynly turned to ſo pleaſaunte a con|ceyte.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Anon after the agreement made betweene Ormonde and Sentleger, the Earle his Ser|uants (which hee kept at that time in his lyue|rey to the number of fiftie) beſought his Lord|ſhip to take at the Lymehouſe his part of a ſup|per, which they prouided for him. The noble man wyth honour accepting their dutifull of|fer, ſupped at theyr requeſt, but not to their con|tentation at the place appoynted. For whether it were that one caytife or other did poyſon the meate,The Earle of Ormonde de|ceaſeth. or that ſome other falſe meaſures were vſed (the certaintie with the reuenge whereof to God is to bee referred) the noble man wyth thirtie and fiue of his ſeruaunts preſently that night ſickned, one Iames White, the Earle his Stewarde, with ſixtene of his fellowes died, the remnant of the ſeruauntes recouered, but theyr Lorde, whoſe health was chiefly to bee wiſhed, in the floure of his age deceaſſed of that ſick|neſſe, at Elie houſe in Holborne,1546 muche aboute the .xxviij. of October, and was buried in Saint Thomas of Acres his Churche, whoſe death bred ſorrow to his friendes little comfort to his aduerſaries, great loſſe to his Countrey, and no ſmall griefe to all good men.

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