Compare 1577 edition: 1 EEBO page image 851 The death of the emperour Maximilian [...]. pag 763.In this yeare the twelfe of Februarie, died the emperour Maximilian, for whome the king caused a solemne obsequie to be kept in Poules church. ¶ Hée died at Luiz, a towne vpon the marches of Austrich, where he remained for his delight and plesure in hunting the wild bore, and other chases of the field. He liued alwaies vnder one condition of fortune, [...] description of the empe| [...]s qualities. who manie times fauoured him, in offering him ma|nie faire occasions, & as often wrought against him in not suffering him to take the fruit and effect of them. He was by nature inconstant and remooue|able, and had conceipts and impressions verie ill dis|posed and different from the iudgement of other men, ioined to an excessiue prodigalitie and dissipati|on of monie.

Matters which cut off from him the effects and successe of all occasions, being otherwise a prince most perfect and instructed in the ordering of warre, secret to laie and dispose a plot, diligent to follow it, of bodie able and suffering, of mind affable and easie, and replenished with manie other excellent gifts and ornaments. Unto some of these properties, the good seruice which he did the king of England at Terwin giueth proofe, at what time both he and his people marched vnder the English ensigne, and receiued paie as stipendarie souldiors; whose wages the king had a care to paie, as maie appeare by his coining of siluer monie, whereof was scarsitie in his campe, in respect of gold, wherewith the souldiors were well stored, as one dooth verie well make report, saieng:

Pro mercede nihil nisifuluum soluitur aurum,

Auri militibus radiantis copia totis

Tanta fuit castris, vt rex cudisse coactus

Nummum exargento fuerit.

Assoone as the emperour was dead, the French king and the king of Spaine began manifestlie to aspire to the empire,The French [...] and the Spanish [...] aspire to the empire. the purchase whereof albeit was a matter of right great importance, and no lesse the emulation running betwéene two so mightie prin|ces, yet they ordered their ambition with great mo|destie, neither vsing words of iniurie, nor threats of armes; but either one labouring by his authoritie, & by his meanes, to draw on his side the electors. The French king sundrie times reasoned touching the election with great comelinesse with the Spanish ambassadours, to whom he said it was a matter both agréeable and conuenient, that either of them seue|rallie should séeke by honest meanes to increase the honour of his house by so great a dignitie: which for that in times before had bene transferred into the fa|milies of their predecessours, there was now the lesse occasion to bréed betwéene them two matter of iniu|rie, nor diminution of their amitie and good will.