Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the nineteenth daie of Maie was receiued into London a cap of maintenance & a sword,A cap of [...]tenance se [...] to the king from the po [...] sent from pope Iulie, with a great companie of nobles and gen|tlemen, which was presented to the king on the sun|daie then next insuing, with great solemnitie in the cathedrall church of saint Paule. Touching this pope (saith Guicciardine) disappointed of so manie hopes, Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 490. Pope Iulie compared to Anteus. we may laie him in comparison with that which is written by the poets of Anteus, that being tamed by the forces of Hercules, as often as he was throwne to the ground, so often did appeare in him a greater strength and courage; such wéening had the pope a|midst his aduersities, for when he seemed most aba|sed and oppressed, it was then that he did most lift vp him selfe with a spirit more constant and resolute, promising better of his fortune than euer.

After he had plaied all his troublesome pageants, and had got by sundrie aspiring practises I wot not what péerelesse primasie, he fell sicke. Guic. pag. 631. And happilie he was then more full of high conceipts and trauelling thoughts than at anie time before: for notwithstan|ding he had brought his fortune to be equall with his desires, & obteined the thing he aspired vnto, yet his deuises and plots did nothing diminish, but grew in|creasing by the same meane which should haue satis|fied them.The purposes of pope Io [...] the second [...] his death. He had determined in the beginning of the spring and first opening of the yeare, to send to the enterprise of Ferrara which he so much desired, and his opinion was, that that state was able to make no resistance, both for that it was naked of all suc|cours, and bicause the Spanish armie was to ioine with his companies: he had secretlie bought of Ce|sar for the price of thirtie thousand duckets, the citie of Sienna for the behoofe of the duke of Urbin, to whome (except Pesera) he would neuer giue anie thing of the estate ecclesiastike, to the end to reserue to himselfe the whole glorie to haue simplie and one|lie studied for the exaltation of the church. He agreed to lend to Cesar fortie thousand duckats, receiuing Modona in gage. He threatned them of Lucquoie, who in the heat of the affaires of the duke of Ferra|ra, were become lords of Garsagnana making in|stance that they would deliuer it to him.

He was out of conceit with the cardinall of Me|dicis,The pope [...] mal content for that he thought him to cleaue more to the king catholike, than to him. And bicause he knew he was not able to dispose of the citie of Florence as he thought, he studied alredie new plots, and new practises to alter that estate. He was ill contented with the cardinall of Sion, from whome he tooke the name of legat, and inioined him to come to Rome, for that in the duchie of Millan he had appropriat to himselfe a yearelie rent of more than thirtie thou|sand duckats, of the estates and goods of diuerse per|sons. The better to assure the duke of Urbin of Si|enna by intelligences of his neighbours, he had of new taken into his paie Charles Baillon, to chase out of Perousa Iohn Paule, who by affinitie was verie neere ioined to the sonnes of Pandolffe Pe|truccio successours to the greatnesse of their father. He would of new create duke of Genes, Octauian Fregosa, deposing Ianus from that dignitie: an action wherevnto did consent the others of the house of Fregosa, bicause for the degrée that his ancestors held in that state, it séemed best to apperteine vnto him.