Compare 1577 edition: 1 This is noted by writers to be a token of great wisedome in this noble king, that would not go a|bout to catch more than he might well gripe. Exam|ples of bountious liberalitie, and great clemencie he shewed manie, and the same verie notable; so that in maner he alone amongst all other kings was found to be one, subiect to none, or at the least, to verie light and small faults. But yet he was not void of euill haps: for whereas, during the terme of fortie yeares space he reigned in high felicitie, and as one happie in all his dooings: so in the rest of his time that fol|lowed, he felt a wonderfull change in fortune (whom writers compare to the moone for hir variablenesse,Prosperitie vnstable. and often alterations, as neuer at a staie, saieng,

Vultus fortunae variatur imagine lunae,

Crescit, decrescit, in eodem sistere nescit)

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 ¶ Amongst other (as I remember) there is yet re|maining a charter vnder his great seale conteining a grant made vnto Iohn Eure and his heires for his good seruice doone in those parts, Iohn S [...]ow [...] con [...]e [...] referreth [...] to the last yeare of king Edward the first. of a manour called Ketnes in the countie of Forfar (which lieth in the north of Scotland) with a market euerie mondaie, and a faire for thrée daies togither at Michaelmasse, as the euen, the daie, and the morrow after. Also he granted to the same Iohn Eure, free warren tho|roughout the same lordship. This Iohn Eure was ancestor vnto the lord Eure that now liueth, who hath the same charter in his possession. ¶ As for this kings victories in France, the same were such as might séeme incredible, if the consent of all writers in that age confirmed not the same. But as these victories were glorious, so yet they prooued not so profitable in the end: for whereas he had sore burdened his subiects with taskes and subsidies, at length they waxed wearie, and began to withdraw their forward minds to helpe him with such summes EEBO page image 413 as had béene requisit for the maintenance of the warres, which the Frenchmen prolonged of purpose, and refused to trie their fortune any more in pight fields, wherby when he was constreined to be at con|tinuall charges in such lingering warres, to defend that which he had erst gotten by force, and couenants of the peace; the sinewes of warre, to wit monie, be|gan to faile him, and so the enimies recouered a great part of that which before time they had lost, both on the further side the seas, and likewise in Scotland.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This must needs be a great greefe vnto a prince of such a stout and valiant stomach, namelie sith he had béene so long time before accustomed to find for|tune still so fauourable vnto him in all his enterpri|ses. But finallie the thing that most greeued him, was the losse of that most noble gentleman, his déere sonne prince Edward, in whom was found all parts that might be wished in a worthie gouernour. But this and other mishaps that chanced to him now in his old yeares, might seeme to come to passe for a re|uenge of his disobedience shewed to his father in v|surping against him, although it might be said, that he did it by constreint, and through the aduise of o|thers. But whether the remorse hereof, or of his other offenses mooued him; it may séeme (as some write) that the consideration of this worlds mutabilitie, which he tried to the full, caused him (as is thought) to haue in mind the life in the world to come, and there|fore of a pure deuotion founded the church and col|ledge of saint Stephan at Westminster, and ano|ther at Cambridge called The kings hall, giuing therevnto lands and reuenues, to the mainte|nance of them that would giue themselues vnto learning.