Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer, sith that all this was doone by the au|thoritie EEBO page image 189 of the pope, the king besought him to make the same void, and to command the barons to obeie him being their king, as reason required they should. There were also sent by him other messengers, as Hugh de Boues and others,Hugh de Boues. into diuerse parts be|yond the sea, to bring from thence great numbers of men of war and souldiers, appointing them to meet him at Douer, at the feast of saint Michaell next in|suing. Matth. Paris. He sent likewise vnto all his chateleins and constables of castels within the realme, requiring them to prouide themselues of all things necessarie for defense of the holds committed to their charge, if they should chance to be besieged, though it were on the next morrow.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 His ambassadours and other messengers being thus dispatched, and hauing but few persons left a|bout him, or in maner none, except such of the bishop of Norwich his seruants as he had borowed of him, he fell to take prises as any ships came by suspected not to be his fréends, so séeking to win the fauour of the mariners that belonged to the cinke ports, and so lay close in the Ile of Wight and there about the sea-coasts for the space of thrée moneths togither. In which meane time, manie things were reported of him, some calling him a fisher, some a merchant, and some a pirat and rouer. And manie (for that no certeine newes could be heard of him) iudged that he was either drowned, or dead by some other means. But he still looking for some power to come ouer to his aid, kept himselfe out of the way, till the same should be arriued, and dissembled the conceit of his reuenge and hart-grudge, till opportunitie ser|ued him with conuenient securitie to put the same in execution. Wherein he shewed himselfe discréet and prouident, and did as in such a case one wiseman dooth counsell another, saieng,
—sapiens irámque coërcet,Saepè etiam vtiliter cedit, placidísque furentemDemulcet dictis, & dulcibus allicit hostemBlanditijs, donec deceptum in retia mittat.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Polydor. The lords all this while lay at London, and began to doubt the matter, bicause they could heare no cer|teine newes where the king was become: for doub|ting (as I said) the suertie of his person, he conueied himselfe secretlie from one place to another, lodging and taking his diet oftentimes more meanlie than was decent for his estate: and still he longed to heare how his ambassadours sped with the pope, who in the meane time comming vnto Rome,The ambassa|dours cõming to the popes presence de|clare their message. and declaring their message at full, tooke it vpon their solemne oth, that the right was on the kings side, and that the fault rested onelie on the lords, touching the whole controuersie betweene them and him, who sought with great rigour and against reason to bridle him at their pleasures.