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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The archbishop of Canturburie (vnto whome the rule of the realme chéefelie belonged) being aduerti|sed hereof, sent for the greatest number of the citi|zens, and vsing them with gentle words, persuaded them to deliuer pledges, the better to assure him, that no such thing should chance, which was suspected of manie, though he was loth to conceiue any such opi|nion of them. They being ouercome with his cour|teous words, gaue vnto him pledges.