Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The men of warre that serued vnder his ensignes, being for the more part hired souldiers and stran|gers, came togither, and marching foorth with his bo|die, each man with his armour on his backe, in war|like order, conueied it vnto Worcester, where he was pompouslie buried in the cathedrall church be|fore the high altar, not for that he had so appointed (as some write) but bicause it was thought to be a place of most suertie for the lords and other of his fréends there to assemble, Bernewell. and to take order in their businesse now after his deceasse. And bicause he was some|what fat and corpulent, his bowels were taken out of his bodie, and buried at Croxton abbeie, a house of moonks of the order called Praemonstratenses, in Staffordshire, the abbat of which house was his physician.

¶ How soeuer or where soeuer or when soeuer he died, it is not a matter of such moment that it should EEBO page image 195 impeach the credit of the storie: but certeine it is that he came to his end, let it be by a surfet, or by o|ther meanes ordeined for the shortening of his life. The manner is not so materiall as the truth is cer|teine. And suerlie, he might be thought to haue pro|cured against himselfe manie molestations, manie anguishes & vexations, which nipt his hart & gnawd his very bowels with manie a sore symptome or pas|sion: all which he might haue withstood if fortune had beene so fauourable, that the loialtie of his subiects had remained towards him inuiolable, that his No|bles with multitudes of adherents had not with such shamefull apostasie withstood him in open fight, that forren force had not weakened his dominion, or ra|ther robbed him of a maine branch of his regiment, that he himselfe had not sought with the spoile of his owne people to please the imaginations of his ill af|fected mind; that courtiers & commoners had with one assent performed in dutie no lesse than they pre|tended in veritie, to the preseruation of the state and the securitie of their souereigne: all which presuppo|sed plagues concurring, what happinesse could the king arrogate to himselfe by his imperiall title, which was through his owne default so imbezelled, that a small remanent became his in right, when by open hostilitie and accurssed papasie the greater por|tion was pluckt out of his hands.

Here therefore we sée the issue of domesticall or homebred broiles, the fruits of variance, the gaine that riseth of dissention, whereas no greater nor sa|fer fortification can betide a land, than when the in|habitants are all alike minded. By concord manie an hard enterprise (in common sense thought vnpos|sible) is atchiued, manie weake things become so de|fended, that without manifold force they cannot be dissolued. From diuision and mutinies doo issue (as out of the Troiane horsse) ruines of roialties, and de|caies of communalties. The sinewes of a realme is supposed of some to be substance and wealth; of other some policie and power; of other some conuenient defenses both by water and land: but a most excel|lent description of a well fortified countrie is that of Plautus, set downe in most pithie words and graue sentences; no lesse worthie to be written than read and considered. The description is this.

Plaut. in Pers.Si incolae bene sunt morati pulchrè munitũ regnũ arbitror:

Perfidia & peculatus ex vrbe & auaritia si exulent,

Quarta inuidia, quinta ambitio, sexta obtrectatio,

Septimum periurium, octaua indulgentia,

Nona iniuria, decima quod pessimum aggressu scelus:

Haec nisi inde aberũt cẽtuplex murus reb secundis parũ est.