These six assaulted the castell. The ladies seeing them so lustie and couragious,The king & fiue other as|saile the ca|stell. were content to solace with them, & vpon further communication, to yéeld the castell and so they came downe & dansed a long space. And after the ladies led the knights into the ca|stell, and then the castell suddenlie vanished out of their sights. On the daie of the Epiphanie at night, the king with eleuen other were disguised, after the maner of Italie,Maskers dis|guised after the Italian fashion. called a maske, a thing not seene be|fore in England: they were apparelled in garments long and broad, wrought all with gold, with visors and caps of gold. And after the banket doone, these maskers came in, with six gentlemen disguised in silke, bearing staffe torches, and desired the ladies to danse; some were content, and some refused. And af|ter they had dansed, and communed togither, as the fashion of the maske is, they tooke their leaue and de|parted, and so did the quéene, and all the ladies.]
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The fiue and twentith daie of Ianuarie began the parlement,A parlement. The summe of the bishop of Canturbu|ries oration in the parle|ment. where the bishop of Canturburie began his oration with this verse Iustitia & pax osculatae sunt. Upon which words he declared how iustice should be ministred, and peace should be nourished, and by what meanes iustice was put by, and peace turned into warre. And therevpon he shewed how the French king would doo no iustice in restoring to the king his right inheritance: wherfore for lacke of iustice, peace of necessitie must be turned into warre. In this par|lement was granted two fiftéens of the temporaltie, and of the clergie two tenths. After that it was con|cluded by the whole bodie of the realme in the high court of parlement assembled, that warre should be made on the French king and his dominions. Wher|vpon was woonderfull spéed made in preparing all things necessarie both for sea and land.
In this parlement was sir Robert Sheffeld knight, sometime recorder of London, Abr. Fl. ex [...]. pag. 896. speaker for the commons. During this parlement, in the moneth of March, a yeoman of the crowne, one of the kings gard, named Newbolt,Newbolt a yeoman of [...] gard hange [...] slue within the palace of Westminster a seruant of maister Willoughbies, for the which offense the king commanded to be set vp a new paire of gallowes in the same place where the said seruant lost his life; and vpon the same the said Newbolt was hanged, and there remained on the gallowes by the space of two daies. A notable exam|ple of iustice, whereby the king verefied the report that was commonlie noised abroad of him; namelie that he could not abide the shedding of mans bloud, much lesse wilfull murther. Wherein he shewed how tender he was ouer his subiects, and also how seuere against malefactors, speciallie mankillers; whome he thought vnworthie of life, that had béene the in|struments of others death; according to the law:
—oculos oculis & dentibus esseG [...]. Ha. in [...] 5.Pensandos dentes: sic par erit vltio culpae.