Compare 1587 edition: 1 Hauing lente to the King his Signet to ſeale a Letter, who hauing powdred Erimites engrayled in the Scale, why howe now Wiſe quoth the King. what? haſt thou Liſe here? And if it like your Maieſtie, quoth ſir Williã, a louſe is a riche Coate, for by giuing the Louſe, I part Armes with the French King, in that he gyueth the Floure de Lice. Whereat the king heartily laughed, to heare how pretily ſo byting a taunt (namely proceeding from a Prince) was ſodaynly turned to ſo pleaſaunte a con|ceyte.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 Anon after the agreement made betweene Ormonde and Sentleger, the Earle his Ser|uants (which hee kept at that time in his lyue|rey to the number of fiftie) beſought his Lord|ſhip to take at the Lymehouſe his part of a ſup|per, which they prouided for him. The noble man wyth honour accepting their dutifull of|fer, ſupped at theyr requeſt, but not to their con|tentation at the place appoynted. For whether it were that one caytife or other did poyſon the meate,The Earle of Ormonde de|ceaſeth. or that ſome other falſe meaſures were vſed (the certaintie with the reuenge whereof to God is to bee referred) the noble man wyth thirtie and fiue of his ſeruaunts preſently that night ſickned, one Iames White, the Earle his Stewarde, with ſixtene of his fellowes died, the remnant of the ſeruauntes recouered, but theyr Lorde, whoſe health was chiefly to bee wiſhed, in the floure of his age deceaſſed of that ſick|neſſe, at Elie houſe in Holborne,1546 muche aboute the .xxviij. of October, and was buried in Saint Thomas of Acres his Churche, whoſe death bred ſorrow to his friendes little comfort to his aduerſaries, great loſſe to his Countrey, and no ſmall griefe to all good men.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 114 His deſcription.This Earle was a goodly and perſonable noble man, full of honour, which was not one|ly lodged inwardly in his mynde, but alſo hee bare it outwardly in countenaunce. As franke and as liberall as his calling required. A deepe and a farre reaching head. In a good quarell ra|ther ſtout than ſtubborne bearing himſelfe with no leſſe courage, when he reſiſted, than with ho|nourable diſcretion, where he yeelded. A fauou|rer of peace, no furtherer of warre, as one that preferred vnlawfall quietneſſe before vpright troubles, beeing notwithſtanding of as greate wiſedome in the one, as of valour in the other. An earneſt and a zealous vpholder of his coun|trey, in all attemptes rather reſpecting the pub|lique weale, than his priuate gaine. Whereby he bounde his Countrey ſo greatlye vnto him, that Irelande might with good cauſe wiſh that eyther he had neuer beene borne, or elſe that hee had neuer deceaſſed, ſo it were lawfull to craue him to bee immortall, that by courſe of nature was framed mortall. And to giue ſufficient proufe of the entyre affection he bare his Coun|trey, and of the zealous care he did caſt thereon, he betooke in his death bed his ſoule to God, his carkaſſe to Chriſtian buriall, and his heart to his Countrey, declaring thereby, that where his minde was ſetled in his life, his heart ſhoulde be there entombed after his death. Which was ac|cording to his will accompliſhed. For his heart was conueyed to Irelande, and lyeth engraued in the Chore of the Cathedrall Church in Kil|kennie, where his aunceſters for the more part are buried. Vpon which kinde legacie this Epi|taph was deuiſed.
His Epitaph.Cor patriae fixum viuens, iam redditur illi,Poſt mortem, patriae quae peracerba venit.Non ſine corde valet mortalis viuere quiſqn,Vix tua gens vita permanet abſ tua.Quae licet i [...]foelix extincto corde fruatur,Attamen optato viuere corde nequit.Ergo qurd haec faciat? quem re non poſsit amoremCordi vt tam charo reddere corde velit.