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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Thus ended this puissant prince his most noble and fortunate reigne, whose life (saith Hall) though cruell Atropos abbreuiated; yet neither fi [...]e, malice, nor [...]retting time shall appall his honour, or blot out the glorie of him that in so small time had doone so ma|nie and roiall acts. W. P. [In this yeare, the one and twen|tith of October deceassed the gentle and welbeloued Charles French king the sixt of [...] name, who was buried at S. Denis. Abr. Fl. out of Angl. prael. ] ¶So that betwéene the death of these two kings, namelie the one of England, the other of France, there was no great space of time; sith Charles departed in October, and Henrie in Au|gust: by the priuation of whose liues, which of the two realmes susteined the greater losse, it is a question not to be discussed. Certeine it is that they were both souereigns tenderlie loued of their subiects, as they were princes greatlie fauouring their people. Fi|nallie, in memorie of this Henrie the fift, a king of a roiall hart, and euerie waie indued with imperiall vertues, I find so fit a report co [...]spiring in truth with his properties and disposition, that I thinke it verie conuenient here to be inserted in place of an epitaph:

Henrici illustris properans mors occupat artus,
Ille suae patriae decus immortale per aeuum
Venturum, virtutis & indelebile lumen,
Celso anim [...] prorsus, leni quoque pectore ciues
N [...]n solum, at iustos hostes fideíqu [...] probatae
Dilexit, niueo raro ira [...]undior ore.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Of learned men and writers, these I find remem|bred by Bale and others, to haue liued in the daies of this noble and valiant king Henrie the fift. First, Alaine de Lin, borne in Lin, and professed a Car|melite frier in that towne, he at length became prior of that conuent, proceeded doctor of diuinitie in Cam|bridge, and wrote manie treatises; Thomas Otter|borne that wrote an historie of England, is thought to liue about this season, he was a Franciscan or graie frier, as they called them, a great student both in diuinitie and philosophie; Iohn Seguard an excel|lent poet, and a rhetorician, kept a schoole, and read to his scholers in Norwich, as is supposed, writing sundrie treatises, reproouing as well the profaning of the christian religion in monks and priests, as the abuse of poetrie in those that tooke vpon them to write filthie verses and rimes; Robert Rose a frier of the Carmelites order in Norwich commonlie cal|led the white friers, both an excellent philosopher, and diuine, procéeded doctor at Oxenford, promoted to be prior of his house, and writing diuerse treatises: a|mongst all the sophists of his time (as saith Bale) he offended none of the Wickleuists, who in that season set foorth purelie the word of God, as maie appeare by his workes.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Moreouer, Iohn Lucke, a doctor of diuinitie in Oxenford, a sore enimie to the Wiekleuists; Richard Caister borne in Norfolke, vicar of saint Stephans in Norwich, a man of great holinesse and puritie in life, fauouring (though secretlie) the doctrine of the Wickleuists, and reproouing in his sermons, the vn|chast manners and filthie example that appeared in the cleargie. Of sir Iohn Oldcastell lord Cobham ye haue heard before; William Walleis a blacke frier in Lin, and prouinciall of his order here in Eng|land, W. P. made a booke of moralizations vpon Ouids Me|tamorphôseis, comparable to postils vpon Aesops Fables; Richard Snetisham, a student in Oxenford, where he profited so greatlie in learning and wise|dome, that he was accounted the chéefest in all that vniuersitie, in respect whereof he was made chancel|lor of the same, chosen also to be one of the twelue to examine and iudge vpon Wickliffes doctrine by the archbishop of Canturburie; Iohn Langdene a monke of Christes church in Canturburie, an other of those twelue; William Tailor a priest, and a ma|ster of art in Oxenford, a stedfast follower of Wic|kliffes doctrine, & burnt for the same in Smithfield at London, the second day of March, in the yeare of our Lord 1422, & last of king Henrie the fift his reigne.

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