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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Some authors write that the Dolphin to staie that no agréement should passe, Chro. of Flan|ders. sent sir Taneguie de Chastell to the duke of Burgognie, declaring that if he would breake off the treatie with the English|men, he would then common with him; and take such order, that not onelie they but the whole realme of France should thereof be glad and reioise. Howso|euer it came to passe, truth it is, Titus Liuius. that where it was a|gréed, that they should eftsoones haue met in the same place on the third of Iulie; the king according to that appointment came: but there was none for the French part, neither quéene nor duke that once ap|peared; so that it was manifest inough how the fault rested not in the Englishmen, but in the French|men. By reason wherof no conclusion sorted to effect of all this communication, saue onlie that a certeine sparke of burning loue was kindled in the kings heart by the sight of the ladie Katharine.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king without doubt was highlie displeased in his mind, that this communication came to no bet|ter passe. Wherefore he mistrusting that the duke of Burgognie was the verie let and stop of his desires, said vnto him before his departure:

Coosine, we will haue your kings daughter, and all things that we de|mand with hir, or we will driue your king and you out of his realme. Well (said the duke of Burgognie) before you driue the king and me out of his realme, you shall be well wearied, and therof we doubt little.
Shortlie after, the duke of Burgognie and the Dol|phin met in the plaine fields besides Melun, and there comming togither, concluded apparantlie an open peace and amitie, which was proclamed in Paris, Amiens, and Pontoise.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This agréement was made the sixt of Iulie in the yeare 1419. It was ingrossed by notaries,An agréement betwéene the duke of Bur|gognie & the Dolphin. signed with their hands, and sealed with their great seales of armes: but as the sequele shewed, hart thought not what toong spake, nor mind meant not that hand wrote. Whiles these things were a dooing, Titus Liuius diuerse of the Frenchmen in Rone went about a conspiracie against the Englishmen, whereof the king being well aduertised, sent thither certeine of his nobles, which tried out these conspirators,A conspiracie in Rone. caused them to be apprehended, had them in examination, and such as they found guiltie were put to death; and so setting the citie in quietnes, returned to the king, who coun|ted it great honor to kéepe the countries which he woone by conquest in obedience and aw; sith such vi|ctories are not obteined without sore labour and toile, both of prince and people, as the poet rightlie saith:

Quaerere regna, labor; virtus est parta tueri
Maxima.In Angl. prel. sub Hen. 5.

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