Compare 1577 edition: 1 After Easter the nineteenth daie of the moneth of Aprill, the king deliting to set foorth yoong gentle|men, called Nicholas Carew, and Francis Brian, and caused diuerse other yoong gentlemen to be on the counter part, and lent to them horsse and harnesse to incourage all youth to séeke déeds of armes. This yeare died at Rome by poison (as was reported) the archbishop of Yorke and cardinall,Doctor Ben|brike archbi|shop of Yorke and cardinall poisoned at Rome. called doctor Ben|brike, who was the kings ambassadour there: this was a wiseman and of a iollie courage. The king then gaue the said archbishoprike to Thomas Wol|sie, then bishop of Lincolne, who at that time bare all the rule about the king, and what he said was o|beied in all places. Now when he was once archbi|shop, he studied daie and night how to be a cardinall, and caused the king, and the French king to write to Rome for him, and at their requests he obteined his purpose, as you shall heare afterward.

At this time was much communing, and verelie (as it appeared) it was intended,The K. in per|son purposed to passe the seas to sée the French king his brother. that the king in person would passe the sea to Calis, and there on the marches of the same, the French king and quéene to come and sée the king their brother: and for the same iournie manie costlie works were wrought, much rich apparell prouided, and much preparation made against the next spring: but death which is the last end of all things let this iournie. For before the next spring the French king died at the citie of Paris, the first daie of Ianuarie, when he had béene married to the faire ladie Marie of England foure score and two daies [whom he so feruentlie loued, that he gaue himselfe ouer to behold too much hir excellent beautie bearing then but eighteene yeares of age, Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag 684. nothing considering the proportion of his owne yeares, nor his decaied complexion; so that he fell into the rage of a feauer, which drawing to it a sudden flux, ouer|came in one instant the life, that nature gaue ouer EEBO page image 836 to preserue anie longer. He was a king iust & much beloued of his people, but touching his condition, nei|ther before he was king, nor after he had the crowne he neuer found constancie nor stabilitie in either for|tune.

For, rising from a small duke of Orleance with great happinesse to the crowne, and that by the death of Charles yoonger than he, and two of his sonnes, he conquered with a verie great facilitie the duchie of Millan and the kingdome of Naples, and almost all the residue of the regions of Italie, being gouer|ned for manie yeares by his direction: he recouered with a verie great prosperitie, the state of Genes that was in rebellion: and vanquished with no lesse glorie the armies of the Uenetians, being in person at both those victories. But on the other side, euen when he was in his youth and best disposition of bo|die,The variable|nesse of his fortune. he was then constreined by king Lewes the eleuenth to marrie his daughter that was both bar|ren and deformed; and yet could neuer get the good will nor countenance of his father in law.