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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Herewith, he inueied against Charles the Dol|phin, being the head and onelie mainteiner of all the ciuill discord, whose wicked nature, and cruell disposi|tion, did well appeare in the murther of the late duke of Burgognie. He therefore willed them, according to their dutie, oth, and agréement, to stand with him, and helpe to reduce such a stubborne and disloiall sonne vnto the obeisance of his father king Charles, that he might shew himselfe conformable vnto such orders and decrées, as they had taken, appointed, and agréed vpon: and for his part, he promised to worship, loue, and honor his father in law the said K. Charles, in place of his owne father, according to the true me|ning of this concord and agréement, trusting the same to be a peace finall.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 And to conclude, he promised, that if they shewed themselues true and loiall to him, according to the same agréement; the Ocean sea should sooner ceasse to slow, and the bright sunne lose his light, than he would desist from dooing that which became a prince to doo to his subiect, or a father to his naturall child. When he had thus persuaded the nobilitie, and dis|patched his businesse at Troies, he with all his ar|mie, hauing with him the French king, and the duke of Burgognie, departed from thence the fourth of Iune;It was ren|dered vp the tenth of Iune Titus Liuius. Sens & Mõ|streau besie|ged and taken. The siege was laid the 16. of Iune. and vpon the seauenth daie of the same mo|neth came before the towne of Sens in Burgognie, which held on the Dolphins part: but after foure daies siege, it was yéelded vnto the king, and there he made capteine, the lord Genuille. From thence, he remooued to Monstreau on fault Yonne, which towne was taken on the three and twentith daie of Iune, by assault, so that manie of the Dolphins part were apprehended, before they could get to the castell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Whilest the siege laie there, and before the towne was entred, the duke of Bedford came thither vnto the king, bringing with him a faire retinue of soldi|ers out of England. After the getting of the towne, the castell being well vittelled and manned, denied to render, and therefore was it enuironed with a strong siege. During the which, the duke of Burgognie was informed, in what place of the towne the duke his father was buried, who was slaine there (as before you haue heard) and now his corps was taken vp a|gaine by his sonnes appointment, and [...]eared, and so conueied vnto Digeon in high Burgognie, and there buried by his father Philip; to the end that the remembrance of him should remaine to posterities, by the reseruation of some monument abiding in the place of his interment, after that his bodie was consumed, and his naturall countenance forgotten. Which is the last point of reuerend dutie (as we may well thinke) which pietie of children towards their pa|rents dooth require; namelie, that they be decentlie buried when they be departed, and that their graues or toome stones may put vs that are aliue in mind of going the same waie, and to set no more by this flit|ting life, than standeth with the vncerteintie and shortnesse of the same; as one right well saith:

Cùm tumulum cernis, cur non mortalia spornis?
Esto memor mortis, quo viuis tempore fortis.

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