Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Thus were the father and sons agréed and made freends, the sonnes couenanting neuer to withdraw their seruices and bounden dueties from their fa|ther, but to obeie him in all things from that day for|ward. Herewith also the peace was renewed betwixt king Henrie and king Lewes, and for the further confirmation,A marriage concluded. a new aliance was accorded betwixt them, which was, that the ladie Adela the daughter of king Lewes should be giuen in mariage vnto earle Richard the sonne of king Henrie, who bicause she was not yet of age able to marie, she was con|ueied into England to be vnder the guiding of king Henrie, till she came to lawfull yeares.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus the peace being concluded, king Henrie forgetting all iniuries passed, brought home his sons in maner aforesaid, who being well pleased with the agreement, attended their father into Normandie, Wil. Paruus where Richard and Geffrey did homage to him, re|ceiuing their othes of allegiance according to the maner in that case required. But king Henrie the sonne did no homage, R. Houed. Wil. Paruus saieth that he did homage also. for his father (in respect that he was a king) would not suffer him, and therefore tooke onelie sureties of him for performance of the coue|nants on his part, as was thought expedient.
¶ All this dissention and strife was kindled (no doubt) by the meanes of certeine sowers of discord, sycophants, parasits, flatterers, clawbacks, & picke|thanks, who had learned their lesson, that
Principibus placuisse viris non vltima laus est,and thinking by their embossed spéech to tickle the eares and harts of the yoong princes, who by reason of their yoong yeares and nakednesse of experience in the course of worldlie maters, sought their owne aduancement, euen by flinging firie faggots of dis|sention betweene them, whose harts naturall affecti|on had vnited. For by the tenor of the storie (marke it who will) we shall fée that no attempt of the sons against the father but had originall from the sugge|stions of euill disposed persons, who (like eeles that fatten not in faire running water, but in muddie motes and ponds) sought honour in hurlie burlies, & reached out long armes to riches by manie a ones impouerishment. This to be true, the small euent and issue prooueth; namelie, the mutuall attonement and reconciliation wouen betweene the father and the sonnes; their remorse for their vndutifulnes, his louing fauour and gratiousnesse; their promptnesse to yéeld to conditions of agreement, his forwardnes to giue consent to couenants required; their readi|nesse to doo the old king homage, his acceptable ad|mission EEBO page image 95 of their proferred seruice; with other circum|stances to be collected out of the storie, all which doo prooue that this their disloiall resistance sprang ra|ther by others incitement, than of their owne seek|ing. Thus we sée what alterations happen in the acti|ons of men, and that euill things manie times (though naturallie bad) doo inferre their contraries, as one aptlie saith,
Discordia fit charior concordia.