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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Whereby it came to passe, that manie of the péeres and high estates of the realme withdrew them from the court; [...] is [...]trarie to [...]. as first the archbishop of Canturburie, and the bishop of Winchester, which got them home into their diocesses. But yet before their departure (as good fathers of their countrie) they instantlie be|sought the king that he would not suffer anie seruant to exceed and passe his maister: borrowing that sen|tence out of the gospell of saint Iohn, where our Sa|uiour speaking to his disciples, saith to them; Uere|lie, verelie, I say vnto you, the seruant is not greater than his maister. Herevnto the king, knowing that they meant this by the cardinall, made this answer, That he would diligentlie sée, that euerie seruant should obeie, and not command. But the cardinall notwithstanding (during the time of his flattering felicitie) held out, thinking scorne to be counterman|ded; behauing himselfe more like a prince, than a prelat, so blinded was he with vaineglorie, and drun|ken with the transitorie delights of the world: obsti|nate impediments and most horrible hinderances to the permanent ioies of heauen, as the poet saith:

[...]lla. in lac. 4. Delicias mundi fragiles qui mente sequetur,
Perdidit aeterni certissima gaudia coeli.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 After this, the duke of Norffolke departed home into his countrie, and last of all the duke of Suffolke also followed the other. For he hauing spent liberal|lie in his iournies when he went as ambassador into France, also in the solemnization of his marriage, and in houskéeping since he was maried, borrowed great summes of monie of the king,The duke of Suffolkes [...]ope hinde| [...]ed by the cardinall. which he hoped should haue béene forgiuen him: but the cardinall would not haue it so, to the intent that the duke be|ing behind hand in debt, should be the more at com|mandement. For as wealth maketh men loftie, so dooth want make them lowlie. In the moneth of Oc|tober, Edw. Hall. An ambassa| [...] from the em [...]erour Maximilian. in this eight yeare of king Henrie, Matthew bishop of Sion or Sittin, a cardinall (commonlie cal|led the cardinall of the Swizzes) came into England from the emperour Maximilian.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 At the contemplation of this cardinall, the king lent to the emperour a great summe of monie. But the chiefest matter that mooued the king to be so frée to Maximilian, was bicause the same monie should be imploied on men of warre against the French king, towards whome the king (or rather cardinall Woolseie) of late had conceiued a grudge, as thus. True it is, that the king bestowed the reuenues of the see of Tornaie vpon the cardinall, at what time that sée came into the kings hands: and therefore the cardinall being desirous to assure to himselfe the same, made sute to the French king, that he would prouide Guillard the former bishop of Tornaie of some other bishoprike in France, so that he might resigne the bishoprike of Tornaie clearelie into his hands. The French king, perceiuing how much this should make against his purpose, that vpon occa|sion hoped euer to recouer the possession of Tornaie, would not gratifie the cardinall herein.

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