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I can saie no more, but in this troublesome time wish you to vse constant hearts, abandoning all ma|lice, enuie, and priuat affections. And therewithall the first course for the lords came vp, wherefore the duke shut vp his talke with these words. I haue not spoken to you in this sort vpon anie mistrust I haue of your truths,The conclusi| [...] of the [...] talke [...] the lords. of which alwaies I haue euer hither|to conceiued a trustie confidence, but I haue put you in remembrance thereof, what chance of variance so euer might grow amongst you in mine absence: and this I praie you, wish me not worsse good spéed in this iorneie, than yée would haue to your selues. My lord, saith one of them, if yee mistrust anie of vs in this matter, your grace is farre deceiued, for which of vs can wash his hands cleane thereof? And if we should shrinke from you as from one that were cul|pable, which of vs can excuse himselfe to be giltlesse? Therefore herein your doubt is too farre cast. I praie God it be (quoth the duke) let vs go to dinner: and so they sat downe. After dinner the duke went in to the quéene, where his commission was by that time sealed, for his lieutenantship of the armie, and then tooke his leaue of hir, and so did certeine other lords also.

Then as the duke came through the councell cham|ber, he tooke his leaue of the earle of Arundell,The earle of Arundell pro|fesseth him|selfe sorie that he goeth not with the duke of Northum|berland. who praied God be with his grace, saieng he was sorie it was not his chance to go with him and beare him companie, in whose presence he could find in his heart to spend his bloud euen at his féet. Then the earle of Arundell tooke Thomas Louell the dukes boie by the hand, and said; Farewell gentle Thomas with all my heart. Then the duke, with the lord mar|quesse of Northampton, the lord Greie, and diuerse other tooke their [...]rge, and went to Durham place, and to White [...] where that night they mustered their men: and the next daie in the morning the duke departed with the number of six hundred men, or thereabouts. And as they rode through Shordich, said the duke to the lord Greie; The people prease to see vs, but not one saith God spéed vs. The same daie sir Iohn Gates and other went out after the duke.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now as the duke went forward on his waie (with his commission from the whole councell,Much a do on all sides du|ring this stir broched be|twéene the duke and the ladie Marie. and his warrant vnder the broad seale of England, without mistrust of that which after fortuned to his owne de|struction, as in the historie of quéene Marie shall ap|peare, accompanied with no small number of lords and gentlemen, hauing notwithstanding his times prescribed, and his iourneies appointed by the coun|cell, to the intent he would not seeme to doo any thing but vpon warrant) what a doo there was, what stir|ring on euerie side, what sending, what riding and posting, what letters, messages, & instructions went to and fro, what talking among the souldiers, what hartburning among the people, what faire pretenses outwardlie, inwardlie what priuie practises there were, what speeding and sending foorth ordinance out of the tower, yea euen the same daie that quéene Marie at euen was proclaimed quéene, what ru|mors, and comming downe of souldiers as there was from all quarters, a world it was to see, and a processe to declare, enough to make (as saith master Fox) a whole volume, euen as big as an Ilias.

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