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Compare 1577 edition: 1 On mondaie the fiue and twentith of Iune, the king with the quéene remooued from Guisnes to Ca|lis where he remained till the tenth of Iulie,

King Henrie departed from Guisnes to Calis, a from thence to Graueling to visi [...] the em|perour.

[...] Hall in H. S. fol. [...].

on which daie he rode to Graueling, and was receiued on the waie by the emperour, and so by him conueied to Graueling, where not onelie the king, but also all his traine was cheared and feailed, with so louing ma|ner, that the Englishmen highlie praised the empe|rours court. [When the French king and his lords had knowledge of the meeting of the emperour and the king of England in the towne of Graueling, they were therewith grea [...]lie gréeued, as by manie things appeared. For as the Englishmen were in France disdained, and in their sutes there greatlie deferred, and had little right, and much lesse fauour: so from day to day still more and more began hart|burning, and in conclusion open warre did arise be|tweene the two realmes.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On Wednesdaie the eleuenth of Iulie,The emperor commeth to Calis to king Henrie. the empe|rour and his aunt the ladie Margaret duchesse of Sauoy came with the king of England to the towne of Calis, and there continued in great ioy and so|lace, with feasting, banketting, dansing and masking vntill the fouretéenth of Iulie.

Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 927. Banketting house within the towne of Calis.

R [...]. Turpin.

¶ For the intertei|ning of these estates (the English lords and gentle|men displaced of their lodgings to serue the other and their traine) there was builded a banketting house eight hundred foot compasse, like a theatre, after a goodlie deuise, builded in such maner as (I thinke) was neuer séene, with sixtéene principals made of great masts, betwixt euerie mast foure and twentie foot, and all the outsides closed with boord and can|uas.

Ouer it, and within round about by the sides, were made thrée scaffolds or lofts one aboue ano|ther for men and women to stand vpon. And in the midst of the same banketting house, was set vp a great piller of timber made of eight great masts, bound togither with iron bands, for to hold them to|gither: for it was an hundred and foure and thirtie foot of length,Goodlie work|manship with|in the banket|ting house. and cost six pounds thirteene shillings and fourepence to set it vpright. The banketing house was couered ouer with canuas, fastened with ropes and iron as fast as might be deuised. And within the said house was painted the heauens, with starres, sunne, mooue, and clouds, with diuerse other things made aboue ouer mens heads: and there were great images of wickers couered, and made like great men of diuerse strange nations: and diuerse reasons were written by them of the countries that they likened to be of, with the armes of those countries hanging by them.

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