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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Rog. Houed. Here is to be noted, that king Richard made not all that iourneie from Marseilles to Messina by sea, but sundrie times comming on land, hired horsses, and rode foorth alongst the coast, appointing with his ships and gallies where to meet him, and sometimes he rested certeine daies togither in one place or other as at Portdelphin, at Naples, and at Salerne, from whence there departed from him Baldwine archbishop of Canterburie, Hubert bishop of Salisburie, and the lord Ranulfe de Glanuille, the which taking vpon them to go before, with prosperous wind and weather in short space landed at Acon, which was then besieged, as you shall heare hereafter.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 At Rome the king came not, but being within the streame of the riuer of Tiber, there came to him a cardinall named Octauianus, bishop of Hostia, to whome he spake manie reprochfull words of the couetousness vsed in the court of Rome (a vice reputed the common nursse of all mischeefes, King Richard blameth the court of Rome for couetous|nesse. as one verie well noteth,

Vbi avaritia est, habitant ferme omnia ibidem
Flagitia, impietas, periuria, furta, rapinae,
Fraudes atq(ue), doli, insidiaeq(ue), & proditiones,
Iurgia & infandae caedes, &c.)

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