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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This nauie lieng thus before Calis at anchor, the duchesse of Clarence was there deliuered of a faire sonne, which child the earles deputie would scarse suffer to be christened within the towne nor without great intreatie would permit two flagons of wine to be conueied aboord to the ladies lieng in the hauen. The king of England aduertised of the refusall made by monsieur de Uauclere to the earle of Warwike,Monsieur de Uauclere made deputie of Calis. was so much pleased therewith, that incontinentlie he made him chiefe capteine of the towne of Calis by his letters patents, which he sent to him out of hand, and thereof discharged the earle as a traitor and rebell. Thus was the one in respect of his accepted seruice honorablie aduanced; and the o|ther, in regard of his disloialtie shamefullie disgra|ced: whereof as the one tooke occasion of inward de|light; so the other could not be void of grudging conceipts,

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The duke of Burgognie (vnto whome king Ed|ward had written, that in no wise he should receiue the earle of Warwike, nor anie of his friends with|in his countries) was so well pleased with the doo|ings of monsieur de Uauclere, that he sent to him his seruant Philip de Cumins, and gaue him yéere|lie a thousand crownes in pension, praieng and re|quiring him to continue in truth and fidelitie toward king Edward, as he had shewed and begun. But al|though monsieur de Uauclere sware in the said Phi|lips presence, trulie to take king Edwards part; yet he sent priuilie to the earle of Warwike lieng at Whitsanbaie, that if he landed,The double dealing of monsieur de Uauclere. The lord Du+ras was [...] Gascoigne also. hee should be taken and lost: for all England (as he said) tooke part a|gainst him; the duke of Burgognie, and all the inha|bitants of the towne, with the lord Duras the kings marshall, and all the retinue of the garrison were his enimies.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The earle, hauing this aduertisement from his feigned enimie, with his nauie sailed toward Nor|mandie, and by the waie spoiled and tooke manie ships of the duke of Burgognies subiects, and at the last (with all his nauie and spoiles) he tooke land at Diepe in Normandie,The earle of Warwike la [...]|ded at Diepe. where the gouernor of the countrie friendlie welcomed him, and aduertised king Lewes of his arriuall. The French king, de|sirous of nothing more than to haue occasion to plea|sure the erle of Warwike, of whom the hie renowme caused all men to haue him in admiration, sent vn|to him, requiring both him and his sonne in law the duke of Clarence, to come vnto his castell of Am|bois, where he men soiourned.Ambois. The duke of Bur|gognie, hearing that the duke and earle were thus receiued in France, sent a post with letters vnto king Lewes, partlie by waie of request, and partlie by way of menacing, to dissuade him from aiding of his aduersaries, the said duke and earle.

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