¶ This may well séeme to be brought vpon the king as a plague of his incontinent, vnchast and li|bidinous life; who hauing Chara coniugij pignora, a no|table motiue to kindle and continue honest loue in wedlocke, did notwithstanding most inordinatlie a|bandon his bodie to beastlie and vnlawfull compa|nie kéeping with strange flesh. Note heere how God stirreth vp the wife of his owne bosome, & the sonnes descending of his owne loines to be thornes in his eies and godes in his sides for profaning so diuine and holie an ordinance; which the verie pagans did so honour and reuerence, that they did not onlie giue precepts touching the due obseruation thereof, but denounced vndoubted vengeance for the violation of the same, as appeareth in this old testimonie,
Hesiod. in lib. cui tit. op. & di.Patrat & ingreditur quicun cubilia fratrisVxorem maculans, & sancta cubilia stupro,Hunc pater ipse deûm Saturnius odit, & ipsiHunc malè dij vexant, &c.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 But we will remit this to the readers considerati|on, and note the issue of this mischéefe now broched. The yoong king reioising that he had his brethren thus on his side, readie to take his part, became more stout than before, and for answere vnto the messen|gers that came to him from his father, he declared that if his father would deliuer vp the whole gouern|ment into his hands, he would be content to breake vp his armie. As for such souldiers as would willing|lie take his part in this quarell, he caused them to sweare that they should faithfullie serue him against his aduersaries: and those that had rather serue on the other side, he licenced them fréelie to depart and go to his father.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 King Henrie the father receiuing such a rebelli|ous answer from his sonne, much lamented the mat|ter,Twẽtie thou|sand Braban|ders were re|teined by king Henrie the fa|ther as saith R. Houed. and so much the more, for that he saw there was no remedie, but to haue the controuersie decided by the sword. Therefore least he should be taken vnpro|uided, he kept his armie in a readinesse about him, hauing reteined certeine bands of Brabanders cal|led the Rowts.