Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 No memora|ble act doone by either of the kings du|ring the af|fronting of their armies.During which time there was nothing doone be|tweene them woorthie memorie, more than dailie skirmishes of no great account. Neuerthelesse, the countrie of France could not but susteine extreame damage, so long susteining such a maine multitude, speciallie of men of warre, which those two mightie kings had assembled. And daie by daie came fresh companies to either partie; so as it was thought a thing impossible that such two princes being so néere, could depart without some cruell bloudie battell to determine their quarrels. But God, in whose hands are the hearts of kings (when least hope was) con|uerted their obstinate minds from warre to peace, which came chieflie to passe by the mediation of the duchesse of Lorraine,Peace is pro|cured betwéen both kings at the sute and séeking of the duchesse of Lorraine. who had béene a long and ear|nest traueller to that end; and neuer ceassed, vntill by hir intercession, both the said kings appointed speci|all commissioners to treat vpon peace. So that af|ter diuerse conferences, they at last concluded vpon all controuersies, except the matter of Calis, wherof queene Marie by hir ambassadours required restitu|tion: but the French partie would in no wise heare thereof. By reason of which difficultie, this treatie could not come to anie good conclusion. King Phi|lip thinking himselfe bound in honour to stand in that case with the quéene his wife, who for his sake had entered into a néedlesse warre against France, and thereby lost hir said towne, with all the countrie adioining (as you haue heard before) did therefore staie a long time before he concluded peace with the French king.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Quéene Marie séeing no likelihood,Q. Marie pens [...]e for the los [...]e of Calis. nor hauing anie hope of the restitution of Calis, and considering also that most of hir affaires had but hard successe, conceiued an inward sorrow of mind: by reason whereof about September next she fell sicke of a hot burning feauer, which sicknesse was common that yeare through all the realme, and consumed a mar|uellous number, as well noblemen, as bishops, iud|ges, knights, gentlemen, and rich farmers: but most of the cleargie, and other ancient and graue persons. In which while the quéene laie languishing of a long sicknesse,The death of quéen Marie and so continued vntill the seuentéenth of Nouember next betwéene the houres of fiue or six in the morning, and then ended hir life in this world, at hir house of saint Iames besides Westminster, when she had reigned fiue years, foure moneths, and eleuen daies, and in the three and fortith yeare of hir bodilie age. The death of this said queene made a maruellous alteration in this realme, namelie in the case of religion, which like as by the death of king Edward the sixt it suffered a change from the e|stablishment of his time: so by the death of this quéene it returned into the former estate againe. So that we sée the vncerteintie of the world, and what changes doo come in times by their reuolutions, and that euerie thing is subiect to vnconstancie, and nothing frée from variablenesse; as the poet saith:

—nihil vsquam

Perpetuum solet in terris fixúmque manere:

Humanis quàm nulla subest constantia rebus!

And heere, bicause we are come to the knitting vp of quéene Maries reigne, I cannot ouers [...]p with si|lence that notable and néedfull discourse of master Fox concerning our blessed souereigne, quéen Eliza|beth, whose maiestie the Lord of his mercie inuiron with fréends as in number manie, so in seruice tru|stie; and whose enimies the same Lord in iustice root out from the land of the liuing, heaping vpon them plague after plague, to their vtter confusion, bicause they haue reiected the gratious means of their con|uersion. Thus therefore writeth master Fox concer|ning the mischéefous persecution and miraculous preseruation of ladie Elizabeth, now quéene of Eng|land, from extreame calamitie and danger of life, in the time of queene Marie hir sister.