Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Thus as they fell into reasoning of this matter, the duke said to the king: Sir, your grace ought to put your bodie in paine to win a strong hold or towne by feats of war, yer you take vpon you to sell or deliuer anie towne or strong hold gotten with great aduen|ture by the manhood and policie of your noble proge|nitours. To this the king with changed countenance answered and said:
Uncle, how say you that? And the duke boldlie without feare recited the same a|gaine, not changing one woord in anie better sort. Whervpon the king being more chafed, replied; Sir, EEBO page image 488 thinke you that I am a merchant, or a verie foole, to sell my land? By saint Iohn Baptist no: but truth it is, that our coosine the duke of Britaine hath satisfied vs in all such summes of monie as our progenitors len [...] vnto him, and to his ancestors, vpon gage of the said towne of Brest, for the which reason and con|science will no lesse but that the towne should there|vpon be to him restored.Upon this multiplieng of woords in such presumptuous maner by the duke a|gainst the king, there kindeled such displeasure be|twixt them, that it neuer ceassed to increase into flames, till the duke was brought to his end.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The earle of saint Paule his counsell to K. Richard.The earle of saint Paule at his last comming in|to England to receiue king Richards oth for obser|uing the truce, had conference with the king of di|uerse matters. The king by waie of complaint, she|wed vnto him how stiffe the duke of Glocester was in hindering all such matters as he would haue go forward, not onlie séeking to haue the peace broken betwixt the realmes of England & France, but also procuring trouble at home, by stirring the people to rebellion. The earle of saint Paule hearing of this stout demeanor of the duke, told the king that it should be best to prouide in time against such mis|chéefs as might insue thereof, and that it was not to be suffered, that a subiect should behaue himselfe in such sort toward his prince. The king marking his woords, Polydor. thought that he gaue him good and faithfull counsell, and therevpon determined to suppresse both the duke and other of his complices, and tooke more diligent regard to the saiengs & dooings of the duke than before he had doone. And as it commeth to passe that those which suspect anie euill, doo euer déeme the woorst; so he tooke euerie thing in euill part, insomuch that he complained of the duke vnto his brethren the dukes of Lancaster and Yorke, in that he should stand against him in all things and seeke his destruc|tion, the death of his counsellors, and ouerthrow of his realme.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The dukes of Lancaster & Yorke excuse the duke of Glocester to the king.The two dukes of Lancaster and Yorke to deliuer the kings mind of suspicion, made answer, that they were not ignorant, how their brother of Glocester, as a man sometime rash in woords, would speake oftentimes more than he could or would bring to ef|fect, and the same proceeded of a faithfull hart, which he bare towards the king, for that it grieued him to vnderstand, that the confines of the English domi|nions should in anie wise be diminished: therefore his grace ought not to regard his woords, sith he should take no hurt thereby. These persuasions quie|ted the king for a time, till he was informed of the practise which the duke of Glocester had contriued (as the fame went amongst diuerse persons) to im|prison the king. For then the duke of Lancaster and Yorke, first reprouing the duke of Glocester for his too liberall talking, vttering vnaduisedlie woords that became not his person, and which to haue con|cealed had tended more to the opinion of vertue, than to lash out whatsoeuer his vnstaied mind affoorded, which is a great fault (as in effect the poet noteth:
and perceuing that he set nothing by their woords, were in doubt least if they should remaine in the court still, he would vpon a presumptuous mind, in trust to be borne out by them, attempt some outra|gious enterprise. Wherefore they thought best to de|part for a time into their countries, that by their ab|sence he might the sooner learne to staie himselfe for doubt of further displeasure. But it came to passe, that their departing from the court was the casting awaie of the duke of Glocester. For after that they were gone, there ceassed not such as bare him euill will, to procure the K. to dispatch him out of the way.Eximia est virtus praestare silentia rebu [...],At contra grauis est culpa tacenda loqus)