Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now whilest he laie here at Blaie, there came vn|to him the countesse of Bierne (a woman mon|struous big of bodie) bringing with hir to serue the king, Matth. Paris. The countesse of Bierne. hir sonne, and three score knights, in hope to get some of his sterling monie, whereof she knew him to haue plentie: and so couenanting for hir intertein|ment, remained still with him, and receiued euerie daie 13 pounds sterling, and yet she neuer pleasured him the woorth of a groat, but rather hindered him, in making him bare of monie, which she receiued, purssed vp and tooke awaie with hir when she depar|ted from him.The reuol|ting of other French lords But if to hir making and stature she had bin indued with the courage of Uoadicia, whom she exceeded (as it should soome) in proportion,Sée pag. 42, 43, 44. & pag. 152. of the historie of England. or with the prowesse of Elfleda, hir seruice had béene no lesse beneficiall to the K. than anie skilfull capteins mar|ching vnder his banner. So that we sée in this wo|man a desire rather to satisffe hir hydropicall humor of couetousnesse, than anie true affection to set for|ward the kings affaires; therefore it may well be said of hir in respect of hir greedinesse to get from the king for hir owne commodities sake, that she was

Vt mare, quod das deuorat, nunquam abundat,

Nunquam rependit.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 In the meane time the lords de Pons, Mirabeau and Mortaigne suddenlie reuolted, & submitted them|selues to the French king, with the vicount of To|wars, and all other the lords and knights of Poictou, and the marches therabouts, that not long before had procured king Henrie to come ouer to their aid. The citie of Xainctes was likewise rendred to him imme|diatlie vpon king Henries departure from thence. At which season the French king meant to haue fol|lowed him to Blaie, but by reason of a great death which chanced in his armie, he was constreined to al|ter his purpose. Suerlie, as authors haue recorded, what through pestilence and vnwholesomnesse of the aire,Death in the French camp. a great manie of Frenchmen died at that time, and dailie more fell sicke. The number of them that died (as Matth. Paris, & Matth. Westminster affirme) amounted to twentie thousand persons, beside foure score of the Nobilitie that bare banners or penons. King Lewes himselfe also began to waxe diseased and crasie, Truce [...] betwixt the two kings. Polydor. The queen [...] England de|liuered of a daughter. so that he was constreined to renew the truce with king Henrie, & therewith departed home.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 King Henrie remained at Blaie vntill the feast of the Assumption of our ladie, and then went to Burdeaux to visit the queene, who in this meane while was brought to bed about midsummer of a yoong ladie, whom they named Beatrice after the queenes mother. Now whilest king Henrie was thus occupied in Poictou and Gascoine, William Marisch, William Ma|risch executi [...]. the sonne of Geffrie Marisch (by commandement sent from the king) was put to death at London, with sixteene of his complices on the euen of S.Iames the apostle. This William Marisch falling in to the kings displeasure, got him to the sea, and plaied the rouer, kéeping the Ile of Lundaie in the west countrie, till finallie he was taken and brought pri|soner vnto the towre, where he was charged with sundrie articles of treason, as that he should hire that counterfeit mad man which sought to haue murthe|red the king at Woodstoke, as before ye haue heard. Howbeit when he should die,Sée pag. 223. he vtterlie denied that euer he was priuie to anie such thing. He was first had from Westminster to the towne, & from thence drawne to the gibet, and there hanged till he was dead, and after being cut downe, had his bowels rip|ped out and burned, and when his head was cut off, the bodie was diuided into foure quarters, and sent vnto foure of the principall cities of the realme. His complices were also drawne through the citie of London vnto the same gibet, and there hanged.