Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Then Greene talked with blacke Will, and said; When ye haue supped, come to mine hosts house at such a signe, and I will giue you the sacke and sugar. By his bloud (said he) I thanke you, I will come and take it I warrant you. According to his promise he came, and there they made good cheare. Then blacke Will & Greene went and talked apart from Brad|shaw, and there concluded togither, that if he would kill master Arden, he should haue ten pounds for his labor. Then he answered,The match made to mur|ther Arden. By his wounds that I will if I maie know him. Marie to morrow in Poules I will shew him thee, said Gréene. Then they left their talke, & Gréene bad him go home to his hosts house. Then Greene wrote a letter to mistresse Ar|den, & among other things put in these words: We haue got a man for our purpose, we maie thanke my brother Bradshaw.Simplicitie abused. Now Bradshaw not knowing anie thing of this, tooke the letter of him, and in the morning departed home againe, and deliuered the letter to mistresse Arden, and Greene & blacke Will went vp to London at the tide.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 At the time appointed, Gréene shewed blacke Will maister Arden walking in Poules. Then said blacke Will, What is he that goeth after him? Marie said Gréen, one of his men. By his bloud (said blacke Will) I will kill them both. Naie (said Greene) doo not so, for he is of counsell with vs in this matter. By his bloud (said he) I care not for that,Blacke will maketh no conscience of bloudshed and murther. I will kill them both. Naie said Gréene in anie wise doo not so. Then blacke Will thought to haue killed maister Arden in Poules churchyard, but there were so manie gentle|men that accompanied him to dinner, that he mis|sed of his purpose. Gréene shewed all this talke to maister Ardens man, whose name was Michaell, which euer after stood in doubt of blacke Will, lest he should kill him.Why Ardens man conspired with the rest to kill his maister. The cause that this Michaell conspi|red with the rest against his maister, was: for that it was determined, that he should marrie a kinswo|man of Mosbies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After this, maister Arden laie at a certeine par|sonage which he held in London, and therefore his man Michaell and Gréene agréed, that blacke Will should come in the night to the parsonage, where he should find the doores left open, that he might como in and murther maister Arden. This Michaell ha|uing his maister to bed, left open the doores accor|ding to the appointment. His maister then being in bed, asked him if he had shut fast the doores, and hée said yea: but yet afterwards, fearing least blacke Will would kill him as well as his maister,One murthe|ring mind mistrusting a|nother, doo hinder the ac|tion where|about they agréed. after he was in bed himselfe, he rose againe and shut the doores, bolting them fast. So that blacke Will com|ming thither, and finding the doores shut, departed, being disappointed at that time. The next daie blacke Will came to Gréene in a great chafe, swearing and staring bicause he was so deceiued, and with manie terrible oths threatened to kill maister Ardens man first, wheresoeuer he met him. No (said Gréene) doo not so, I will first know the cause of shutting the doores.