Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king this yeare held his Christmas at Lon|don, and had there with him a great number of the nobilitie of his realme, which had béene with him in Wales, that they might be partakers of pastime, mirth and pleasure, as they had béene participants with him in suffering the diseases of heat, cold, and other paines abroad in the fields and high moun|teines of Wales, considering with himselfe (as the truth is) that
Mal. Pal. in suo cap.—vita est quàm proxi [...] letho,Quàm meritò spernenda anim [...] si nulla volupt [...]sMulceat at leuent solatia nulla laborem.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 But that no plesure shuld passe without some staine of greese, there was a rumor spred abroad, that the pope conceiued fresh rankor in his stomach against the king and realme of England, for the complaints which had béene exhibited in the councell at Lion by the English orator, for the oppression doone to the church of England: that therevpon, minding now to be reuenged,The pope re|quireth the French king to make war against Eng|land. as was said, he earnestlie mooued the French king to make warre against the English|men and to subdue them vnder his dominion: which enterprise the French king vtterlie refused, both for that he and the king of England were coosens, and againe,The French king refuseth to gratifie the pope therein. bicause the king of France had no iust title or right to make claime to England.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Further, there was as then a truce betwixt Eng|land and France, and before that England could be subdued, much giltlesse bloud should be spilt. Also, the christians in the holie land were sore oppressed, and looked dailie for the arriuall of the king of France, and therefore he would be loth to attempt any new enterprise to hinder his iornie thither. But about the feast of the Epiphanie, other news came out of Pro|uance, that troubled the king of England worse than the other before,The countesse of Prouance dealeth vniust lie with the king of Eng|land hir sonne in law. as thus, That the countesse Beatrice his wiues mother had deliuered vp the countie of Prouance into the French kings hands, togither with sixtéene castels, which in right of the queene ought to haue remained vnto the king of England. For the safe keeping wherof to his vse, the said coun|tesse Beatrice had receiued yeerelie for the terme of fiue yeares last past, the summe of foure thousand marks of the king of England, and yet now in the deliuering of them, with the residue of the countrie vnto the French king, she neuer made any mention of his right.