This plaie was so set foorth with rich and costlie ap|parell, with strange deuises of maskes & morrishes, that it was highlie praised of all men,The cardi|nall is offen|ded at it and punisheth the author and actors of the same. sauing of the cardinall, which imagined that the play had beene de|uised of him, and in a great furie sent for the said mai|ster Roo, and tooke from him his coife, and sent him to the Fléet; and after he sent for the yoong gentlemen, that plaied in the plaie, and them highlie rebuked and threatned, and sent one of them called Thomas Moile of Kent to the Fléet, but by means of friends maister Roo and he were deliuered at last. This plaie sore displeased the cardinall, and yet it was neuer meant to him, as you haue heard. Wherfore manie wisemen grudged to sée him take it so hartilie, and e|uer the cardinall said that the king was highlie dis|pleased with it, and spake nothing of himselfe. But what will you haue of a guiltie conscience but to sus|pect all things to be said of him (as if all the world knew his wickednesse) according to the old verse:

Conscius ipse sibi de se putat omnia dici.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Ambassadors frõ the Frẽch king.The second of March were receiued into London the bishop of Tarbe, Francis vicount of Thurane, and master Anthonie Uescie second president of Pa|ris, as ambassadours from the French king. They were lodged in Tailors hall. On Shrouetuesdaie the king himselfe in a new harnesse all gilt, of a strange fashion that had not béene seene, Edw. Hall pag. Clv. A iustes. and with him eight gentlemen all in cloth of gold of one sute, embrodered with knots of siluer, and the marques of Excester, and eight with him in blew veluet and white sattin, like the waues of the sea, these men of armes came to the tilt, and there ran manie fresh courses, till two hundred fourescore and six speares were broken, and then they disarmed and went to the quéenes chamber, where for them was prouided a costlie banket.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The French ambassadours sued (as was said) to haue the ladie Marie daughter to the K. of Eng|land, giuen in mariage to the duke of Orleance,Sute by the French am|bassadors for the ladie Ma|rie to be mar|ried to the duke of Or|leance. se|cond sonne to their master the French king: but that matter was put in suspense for diuerse considera|tions. And one was, for that the president of Paris doubted whether the mariage betweene the king and hir mother (she being his brothers wife) was lawfull or not. ¶While the French ambassadors laie thus in London, Edw. Hall. in H. 8. fol. Clv. The dogged nature of the French for a matter of no|thing. it happened one euening as they were com|ming from the Blacke friers, from supper to the Tailors hall, two boies were in a gutter casting downe rubbish, which the raine had driuen there, and vnwares hit a lackeie belonging to the vicount of Thurane, and hurt him nothing, for scantlie tou|ched it his cote. But the French lords tooke the mat|ter highlie, as a thing doone in despite, & sent word to the cardinall. Who being too hastie of credence, sent for sir Thomas Seimor knight, lord maior of the ci|tie, and in all hast commanded him vpon his allegi|ance, to take the husband, wife, children, and seruants of the house, and them to imprison, till he knew fur|ther of the kings pleasure, and that the two boies ap|prentises should be sent to the Tower: which com|mandement was accomplished without anie fauor. For the man, and his wife, and seruants,The cardi|nals cruelt [...]. were kept in the counter till the sixt daie of Maie, which was six wéekes full, and their neighbours of gentlenesse kept their house in the meane time, and one of the ap|prentises died in the Tower, and the other was al|most lame. Of the crueltie of the cardinall, and of the pride of the Frenchmen, much people spake, & would haue béene reuenged on the Frenchmen, if wise men in the citie had not appeased it with faire words.]