Compare 1577 edition: 1 What face hath this of conquest? We intend not to disherit your queene, but to make hir heires inheritors also to England.The case of the foresaid mariage still vrged. What greater honour can ye séeke vnto your quéene, than the mariage of|fered? What more méeter mariage than this with the kings highnes of England? What more sure defense in the nonage of your quéene for the realme of Scot|land, than to haue England your patrone and gar|rison? We séeke not to take from you your lawes nor customes; but we seeke to redresse your oppres|sions, which of diuerse ye doo susteine. In the realme of England, diuerse lawes and customes be accor|ding to the ancient vsage thereof. And likewise, France, Normandie, and Gascoigne haue sundrie kind of orders. Haue all the realmes and domini|ons that the emperour now hath, one custome and one sort of lawes? These vaine feares and fantasies of expulsion of your nation, of changing the lawes, of making a conquest, be driuen into your heads, of those, who in deed had rather you were all conque|red,The lord pro|tector telleth the Scots who they be that put doubts into their heads, &c. spoiled, and slaine, than they would lose anie point of their will, of their desire of rule, of their estimation, which they know in quietnesse would be séene what it were, as it were in a calme water.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now in this tumult of disorder, when the realme is tossed vp and downe with waues and surges of battell, famine, and other mischiefes which the warre bringeth, they thinke they cannot be espied; but looke on them you that haue wit and prudence, and consi|der the state of your quéene and realme, you will not kéepe hir sole and vnmaried, the which were to you great dishonor. If you maried hir within the relme, that cannot extinguish the title which we haue to the crowne of Scotland. And what dissention, enuie, grudge, and malice that shall bréed among you, is easie to perceiue. You will marrie hir out of the realme, our title remaineth, you be subiects to a for|ren prince of another countrie, and of another lan|guage, and vs ye haue your enimies, euen at your elbow, your succours farre off from you: and be we not in the bowels now of the realme? Haue we not a great part thereof, either in subiection or in ami|tie and loue? Who shall come into your realme, but he shall be met with, and fought with, if néede be, euen of your owne nation, who be faithfull and true to the realme of England in the waie of this most godlie vnion by mariage.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 And if anie forren power, prince, or potentate,Further in|ducements to make the Scots for|ward in this mariage. or whosoeuer be your aider to nourish still discord, send you an armie also, how shall they oppresse you, fill your houses, waste your grounds, spend and con|sume your vittels, hold you in subiection, & regard you as slaues, which without them could not liue, & will take your quéene to bestow as they lust, & spe|ciallie if their ruler or king (as perchance he may be) in other warres be otherwise occupied, to be a preie to vs, & a true conquest, then it should be too late to saie; We will haue a mariage and no conquest, We wish peace & amitie, We are wearie of battell and miserie.A true saieng. The stubborne ouercommed must suffer the victors pleasure, and pertinacitie will make the victorie more insolent, whereof you your selfe haue giuen the cause, if they send monie and capteines, but no souldiers. First if they be capteins, who ru|leth and who dooth obeie? Who shall haue the honor of the enterprise, and if it be well atchiued? But whe|ther it be well atchiued or no, which number is that which shall be slaine? Whose bloud shall be shed? Their monie peraduenture shalbe consumed, & their commandements obeied. But whose bodies shall smart for it? Whose lands shall be wasted?The lord pro|tector pointeth (as it were) at the inconueni|ences which he would haue the Scots to preuent. Whose houses burned? What realme made desolate? Re|member what it is to haue a forren power within you, a strong power of your enimies vpon you, you (as it were) the campe & plaine betwixt them to fight on, & to be troden vpon, both of the victor, and of the ouercommed. And imagine you see before your eies your wiues & daughters in danger of wantonnesse & insolencie of the soldiors, the proud looks of the cap|teins & soldiors, whom you call to helpe you, the con|tempt you shall bring your nation in, then take heed least indeed that follow which you feare, that is, that you shall be by them conquered, that ye shall be by them put from your holds, lands, taxes & offices, that your laws by them shall be altered, that your nation shall be by them destroied. Consider in this realme,Examples confirming the former as|sertion. did not the Britons call in the Saxons for helpe, & by them were put out? Where be the Picts, once a gret nation betwixt you and vs? How did the nation of France put out the Galles out of all France? How got the Turk first all Grecia, & now of late all Hun|garie, but being called in for to aid & helpe? And did not the Goths by like meanes get all Italie, and the Lombards one part therof now called Lombardie? What looke you for more? Néedie soldiors, & hauing their weapons in their hands, and knowing that you cannot liue without them, what will not they com|mand you to doo? What will they not incroch vpon you? What will they not thinke they may doo?Insolencie o [...] soldiors and l [...]wlesse licen|tiousnesse. And what will they thinke that you dare doo? This forren helpe is your confusion, that succour is your detri|ment, the victorie so had is your seruitude: what is then to be thought of losse taken with them? The strangers and forren soldiors shall oppresse you with|in, our power and strength without; and of your owne nation, so manie as loue quietnesse, godlines, and wealth of your realme, shall helpe also to scourge and afflict you.The issue of the lord pro|tectors e [...]t [...]tation. Is it not better to compose and ac|quite all this calamitie and trouble by marriage, to end all sorrows and battels by such and so honorable a peace? Hath not the emperor Spaine & Burgun|die by title of marriage? How holdeth the French king Britaine now latelie annexed to that crowne, EEBO page image 1001 but by title of marriage? How haue all the great princes of the world happilie and with quiet made of two kingdoms one, of diuerse lordships one, of nations alwaies at warre with themselues, or else in doubtfull peace, one well gouerned kingdome, rule, and dominion, but by that godlie, most quiet, and most amiable composition of marriage? Two meanes there be of making one rule,Two meanes or waies of making one regiment or [...] wherto title is pretended, and perfect agréement betwixt two nati|ons, either by force or superioritie, which is conquest; or by equalitie and loue, which is by parentage & ma|riage: you hate the one, that is, conquest; and by refu|sing the other, you inforce vpon you hatred & malice.