Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 His words to his father.The prince knéeling downe before his father said:
Most redoubted and souereigne lord and father, I am at this time come to your presence as your liege man, and as your naturall sonne, in all things to be at your commandement. And where I vnderstand you haue in suspicion my demeanour against your grace, you know verie well, that if I knew any man within this realme, of whome you should stand in feare, my duetie were to punish that person, thereby to remooue that greefe from your heart. Then how much more ought I to suffer death, to ease your grace of that gréefe which you haue of me, being your natu|rall sonne and liege man: and to that end I haue this daie made my selfe readie by confession and re|ceiuing of the sacrament. And therefore I beseech you most redoubted lord and deare father, for the ho|nour of God, to ease your heart of all such suspicion as you haue of me, and to dispatch me héere before your knees, with this same dagger [and withall he deliuered vnto the king his dagger, in all humble re|uerence; adding further, that his life was not so deare to him, that he wished to liue one daie with his displeasure] and therefore in thus ridding me out of life, and your selfe from all suspicion, here in presence of these lords, and before God at the daie of the gene|rall iudgement, I faithfullie protest clearlie to for|giue you.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king mooued herewith,The kings words to the prince his son cast from him the dagger, and imbracing the prince kissed him, and with shedding teares confessed, that in déed he had him partlie in suspicion, though now (as he perceiued) not with iust cause, and therefore from thencefoorth no misreport should cause him to haue him in mistrust, and this he promised of his honour. So by his great wisedome was the wrongfull suspicion which his father had conceiued against him remooued, and he restored to his fauour. And further, E [...]ton. where he could not but gréeuouslie complaine of them that had slan|dered him so greatlie, to the defacing not onelie of his honor, but also putting him in danger of his life,The princes request to haue his accu|sors to answer their wrõgful slanders. he humblie besought the king that they might an|swer their vniust accusation; and in case they were found to haue forged such matters vpon a malicious purpose, that then they might suffer some punish|ment for their faults, though not to the full of that they had deserued. The king séeming to grant his ro|sonable desire, yet told him that he must tarrie a par|lement, that such offendors might be punished by iudgement of their péeres: and so for that time he was dismissed, with great loue and signes of father|lie affection.
¶Thus were the father and the sonne reconciled, be|twixt whom the said pickthanks had sowne diuision, Abr. Fl. out of Angl. praelijs. insomuch that the sonne vpon a vehement conceit of vnkindnesse sproong in the father, was in the waie to be worne out of fauour. Which was the more like|lie to come to passe, by their informations that priui|lie charged him with riot and other vnciuill demea|nor vnséemelie for a prince. Indeed he was youthful|lie giuen, growne to audacitie, and had chosen him companions agréeable to his age; with whome he spent the time in such recreations, exercises, and de|lights as he fansied. But yet (it should séeme by the report of some writers) that his behauiour was not offensiue or at least tending to the damage of anie bodie; sith he had a care to auoid dooing of wrong, and to tedder his affections within the tract of ver|tue, whereby he opened vnto himselfe a redie passage of good liking among the prudent sort, and was be|loued of such as could discerne his disposition, which was in no degrée so excessiue, as that he deserued in such vehement maner to be suspected. In whose dis|praise I find little, but to his praise verie much, par|cell whereof I will deliuer by the waie as a metyard whereby the residue may be measured. The late poet that versified the warres of the valorous English|men, speaking of the issue of Henrie the fourth, saith of this prince (among other things) as followeth:
—procero qui natu maximus haeresIn Angl. praelijs. sub Hen. 4.Corpore, progressus cùm pubertatis ad annosEsset, res gessit multas iuueniliter audax,Asciscens comites quos par sibi iunxerat aetas,Nil tamen iniustè commisit, nil tamen vnquamExtra virtutis normam, sapientibus aequèAc alijs charus.