Compare 1577 edition: 1 Manie gentlemen of honour sore hated him for his presumptuous attempts to the hindering of their purposes: but he had such comfort of the king, that he little passed for their malice, but kept on his intent, till the king being aduertised of the assem|blies which he made commanded him to ceasse from such dooings, that the people might fall againe to their sciences and occupations, which they had for the more part left off at the instigation of this William with the long beard,Why he ware his long berd. Matth. Paris. so named of the long heare of his [...]eard, which he nourished of purpose to seeme the more graue and manlike, and also as it were in despite of them which counterfeited the Normans (that were for the most part shauen) and bicause he would resemble the ancient vsage of the English nation. Fabian. The kings commandement in restraint of the peoples resort vnto him, was well kept a while, but it was not long yer they began to follow him againe as they had doone before.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Then he tooke vpon him to make vnto them cer|teine collations or sermons, taking for his theme, Haurietis aqu [...] in gaudio de fontibus saluatoris,His oration to the people. that is to saie: Ye shall draw in gladnesse waters out of the founteins of your sauiour. And hereto he added,

I am (said he) the sauiour of poore men; ye be the poore, and haue assaied the hard hands and heauie burdens of the rich: now draw ye therefore the healthfull wa|ters of vnderstanding out of my wels and springs, and that with ioy. For the time of your visitation is come: I shall part waters from waters, by waters I vnderstand the people, and I shall part the people which are good and méeke, from the people that are wicked and proud, and I shall disseuer the good and euill, euen as light is diuided from darkenesse.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 By these and such persuasions and means as he v|sed, he had gotten two and fiftie thousand persons, Ger. Dor. readie to haue taken his part, as appeared after by a roll of their names found in his kéeping, besides diuerse instruments of iron to breake vp houses, and other things seruing to such like purposes. So that he brought the commoners into a great liking of him: but the rich and wealthie citizens stood in much feare, so that they kept their houses, in armes, in doubt to be robbed and murthred by him in the night season.