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Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this parlement was ended, the king kept a solemne Christmasse at Gréenwich, with danses and mummeries in most princelie maner. And on the Twelfe daie at night came into the hall a mount, called the rich mount. F [...]l. Hall in [...]. 8. fol. xxij. [...] descrip|t [...]n of a rich mount being [...] Christmasse [...]. The mount was set full of rich flowers of silke, and especiallie full of broome slips full of cods, the branches were gréene sattin, and the flowers flat gold of damaske, which signified Plan|tagenet. On the top stood a goodlie beacon giuing light, round about the beacon sat the king and fiue o|ther, all in cotes and caps of right crimsin veluet, embrodered with flat gold of damaske, their cotes set full of spangles of gold. And foure woodhouses drew the mount till it came before the quéene, and then the king and his companie descended and dan|sed. Then suddenlie the mount opened, and out came six ladies all in crimsin sattin and plunket, embrode|red with gold and pearle, with French hoods on their heads, and they dansed alone. Then the lords of the mount tooke the ladies and dansed togither: and the ladies reentered, and the mount closed, and so was conueied out of the hall. Then the king shifted him, and came to the queene, and sat at the banket which was verie sumptuous.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After Candlemasse, the king created sir Charles Brandon vicount Lisle.Sir Charles Brandon cre|ated vicount Lisle. In March following was the kings nauie of ships roiall & other set foorth to the number of fortie and two, beside other balangers vn|der the conduct of the lord admerall, accompanied with sir Walter Deuereux, lord Ferrers, sir Wol|stan Browne, sir Edward Ichingham, sir Anthonie Pointz, sir Iohn Wallop, sir Thomas Windam, sir Stephan Bull, William Fitz Williams, Arthur Plantagenet,The nauie set out againe. William Sidneie esquiers, and di|uerse other noble and valiant capteins. They sailed to Portesmouth, and there laie abiding wind, and when the same serued their turne, they weied anchor, & making saile into Britaine, came into Berthram baie, and there laie at anchor in sight of the French nauie, which kept it selfe close within the hauen of Brest, without proffering to come abroad.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The English perceiuing the maner of the French men,The English nauie purpo|sing to set vp|on the French in the hauen, are defeated by a mischãce. determined to set on them in the hauen, and ma|king forward in good order of battell, at their first en|trie one of their ships, whereof Arthur Plantagenet, was capteine, fell on a blind rocke, and burst in sun|der, by reason whereof, all the other staied: and [...] English capteins perceiuing that the hauen was dangerous to enter without an expert lodesman, they cast about, and returned to their harborough at Berthram baie againe. The Frenchmen percei|uing that the Englishmen meant to assaile them, moored their ships so neere to the castell of Brest as they could, and placed bulworks on the land on eue|rie side, to shoot at the Englishmen. Also they trapped togither foure and twentie great hulkes that came to the baie for salt, and set them on a row, to the in|tent that if the Englishmen had come to assault them, they would haue set those hulks on fire, and haue let them driue with the streame amongst the English ships.

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