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Compare 1577 edition: 1 But the boats were readie, and receiued the ladie out of the ship, and sir Christopher Garnish stood in the water and tooke hir in his armes, and so caried hir to land, where the duke of Uandosme, and a cardinall, with manie other great estates receiued hir with great honor. From Bullen with easie iournies she was conueied vnto Abuile, & there entered the eighth of October [where she was receiued by the Dolphin with great honour, Edw. Hall in He. 8. fol. xlvii [...] she was apparelled in cloth of sil|uer, hir horsse was trapped in goldsmiths worke ve|rie richlie. After hir followed 36 ladies all their pal|fries trapped with crimsin veluet embrodered. After them followed one chariot of cloth of tissue, the se|cond cloth of gold, & the third crimsin veluet embro|dered with the kings armes & hirs, full of roses. Af|ter them followed a great number of archers, and then wagons laden with their stuffe. Great was the riches in plate, iewels, monie, apparell, and hangings that this ladie brought into France.]

On the morrow following being mondaie, and S. Denise day,The [...] solemnized betwéene the French king and the ladie Marie sister to K. Henrie. the mariage was solemnized betwixt the French king and the said ladie, with all honour, ioy, & roialtie, both apparelled in goldsmiths worke. Then a great banket and sumptuous feast was made, where the English ladies were honorablie intertei|ned, according to the dignitie of the persons, and to the contentment of them that had no dregs of ma|lice or misliking settled in their harts. For vnpossi|ble it is, that in a great multitude meeting togither, though all about one matter, be it of pleasure and de|light, there should not be one of a repugnant disposi|tion, and (though not apparantlie perceiued trauel|ling with grudge) malignant mind; as we sée some apples vnperished and othersome wormeaten, albeit one bough beare them, and one trée giue them say.

¶ On the tuesdaie being the tenth daie of Octo|ber, all the Englishmen, Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall [...] H. 8. fol. x [...] except a few that were offi|cers EEBO page image 833 with the said quéene,English [...] dis| [...]ged of [...] places [...]nd offices [...]der the [...]. were discharged; which was a great sorrow for them, for some had serued hir long in hope of preferment, & some that had honest roomes left them to serue hir, and now they were without seruice, which caused them to take thought, in so much some died by the waie returning, and some fell mad, but there was no remedie. After the English lords had doone their commission, the French king willed them to take no longer paine, and so gaue to them good rewards; and they tooke their leaue of the queene and returned. Then the Dolphin of France called lord Francis duke of Ualois,The Dol| [...] causeth [...] [...]usts [...] be pr [...]cla| [...]ed a [...] Paris. and by his wife duke of Britaine, for the more honour of this mariage before the Englishmen departed from Abuile, caused a so|lemne iusts to be proclamed, which should be kept at Paris in the moneth of Nouember next insuing.

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