Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The summer this yeare prooued excéeding hot and drie,A drie sum|mer. so that springs and riuers failed to yéeld their accustomed course of waters, by reason wherof great numbers of cattell and beasts,Cattell died. both wild and tame died, through lacke of conuenient liquor to asswage their vehement thirst. In the beginning of the next spring,The king s [...]deth for his wife and so [...] to returne home. king Edward sent into France vnto his wife and sonne, commanding them, now that they had made an end of their businesse, to returne home with all conuenient speed. The queene receiuing the message from hir husband, whether it was so that she was staied by hir brother, vnto whome belike she had complained after what manner she was vsed at hir husbands hands, being had in no regard with him: or for that she had no mind to returne home, bicause she was loth to see all things ordered out of frame by the counsell of the Spensers, whereof to heare she was wearie: or whether (as the manner of women is) she was long about to prepare hir selfe forward, she slac|ked all the summer, and sent letters euer to excuse hir tarriance.The wo|mans dissi|mulation. But yet bicause she would not run in any suspicion with hir husband, she sent diuerse of hir folkes before hir into England by soft iournies. A la|mentable case, that such diuision should be betwéene a king and his quéene, being lawfullie married, and hauing issue of their bodies, which ought to haue made that their copulation more comfortable: but (alas) what will not a woman be drawne and allured vnto, if by euill counsell she be once assaulted? And what will she leaue vndoone, though neuer so in|conuenient to those that should be most déere vnto hir, so hir owne fansie and will be satisfied? And how hardlie is the reuoked from procéeding in an euill action, if she haue once taken a taste of the same? As verie truly is reported by the comedie-writer, saieng,

Malè quod mulier incoepit nisi efficere id perpetrat,

Id illi morbo, id illi senio est; ea illi miserae miseria est:

Si bene facere incoepit, eius eam cito odium percipit,Plaut. i [...] True.

Nimis paucae sunt defessae, male quae facere occoeperint;

Nimis paucae efficiunt, si quid occoeperint benefacere;

Mulieri nimiò malefacere melius est onus, quàm benè.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But to the purpose. King Edward not a little of|fended with king Charles, by whole meanes he knew that the woman thus lingered abroad, he procured pope Iohn to write his letters vnto the French king, admonishing him to send home his sister and hir sonne vnto hir husband.A proclam [...]tion. Fabian. But when this nothing auai|led, a proclamation was made in the moneth of De|cember, the nineteenth yeare of this kings reigne, that if the quéene and hir sonne entred not the land by the octaues of the Epiphanie next insuing in peaceable wise, they should be taken for enimies to the realme and crowne of England. Polydor. ¶ Here authors varie, for some write, that vpon knowledge had of this proclamation, the queene determined to returne into England foorthwith, that she might be reconciled to hir husband.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Others write, and that more truelie, how she being highlie displeased, both with the Spensers and the king hir husband, that suffered himselfe to be misled by their counsels, did appoint indéed to returne into England, not to be reconciled, but to stir the people to some rebellion, wherby she might reuenge hir ma|nifold iniuries. Which (as the proofe of the thing shew|ed) séemeth to be most true, for she being a wise wo|man, & considering that sith the Spensers had exclu|ded, put out, and remooued all good men, from and be|sides the kings councell, and placed in their roomes EEBO page image 337 such of their clients, seruants and freends as pleased them, she might well thinke that there was small hope to be had in hir husband, who heard no man but the said Spensers, which she knew hated hir deadlie. Wherevpon, after that the tearme prefixed in the proclamation was expired, the king caused to be sei|zed into his hands, all such lands, as belonged either to his sonne, or to his wife.