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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now among other things he required of the K. that it might be lawfull for him (without offending of his maiestie) to punish (according to the censures of the church) the iniurie doone vnto him by the archbi|shop of Yorke, and other bishops in the coronation of his sonne. The king granted this, and shewed him|selfe so courteous at that time, that (as it is said) he held his stirrup whiles he mounted on horssebacke.

Notwithstanding which obsequiousnes of the king, it is to be presumed that all inward repining could not be so abolished, as that no fragments remained; but that the archbishop for his part, for the maintenance of his great title, & the k. for the supportation of his souereigntie, when opportunitie serued, sought to get aduantage one of another, & acquit their harts with a new reuenge of an old grudge: for

Immortale odium & nunquam sanabile vulnus.
[...]umen. sat. 15.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 EEBO page image 78 The king would not kisse the pax with the arch|bishop.But whereas twise within a few daies after, the king and the said archbishop met at masse, the king refused to kisse the pax with him. This was marked as a signe of a fained reconciliation, though in déed he afterwards interteined him verie courteouslie, and at his departure ouer into England, tooke leaue of him in fréendlie manner, and directed letters vn|der his seale to his sonne the new king in forme as followeth. Matt. Paris.

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