Compare 1577 edition: 1 But to returne to the princes affaires. When the fame was once spred abroad that K. Edward was fled the relme, an innumerable number of people re|sorted to the earle of Warwike to take his part, but all K. Edwards trustie fréends went to diuerse sanc|tuaries,K. Edwards fréends take sanctuarie. and amongst other his wife quéene Eliza|beth tooke sanctuarie at Westminster, and there in great penurie forsaken of all hir friends, was deli|uered of a faire son called Edward,Queéne Eli|zabeth deliue|red of a prince which was with small pompe like a poore mans child christened, the godfathers being the abbat and prior of Westmin|ster, and the godmother the ladie Scroope. Ab. Flem. [But what might be the heauinesse of this ladies hart (thinke we) vpon consideration of so manie counterblasts of vnhappinesse inwardlie conceiued? Hir husband had taken flight, his adherents and hir fréends sought to shroud themselues vnder the couert of a new protec|tor, she driuen in distresse forsooke not that simple re|fuge which hir hard hap forced vpon hir; and (a kings wife) wanted in hir necessitie such things as meane mens wines had in superfluitie, & (a corosiue to a no|ble mind) a prince of renowmed parentage was (by constreint of vnkind fortune) not vouchsafed the so|lemnitie of christendome due and decent for so hono|rable a personage.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Kentishmen in this seson (whose minds be euer moueable at the change of princes) came to the sub|vrbs of London, spoiled mansions,The Kentish|men make an hurlie burlie. robbed béere|houses, and by the counsell of sir Geffrie Gates and other sanctuarie men, they brake vp the kings Bench and deliuered prisoners, and fell at Ratcliffe, Lime|house, & S. Katharins, to burning of houses, slaugh|ter of people, and rauishing of women. Which small sparkle had growne to a greater flame, if the earle of Warwike with a great power had not suddenlie quenched it, and punished the offendors: which benefit by him doone, caused him much more to be estéemed and liked amongst the commons than he was before. When he had settled all things at his pleasure,King Henrie fetched out of the Tower & restored to his kinglie go|uernement. vpon the twelfe daie of October he rode to the Tower of London, and there deliuered king Henrie out of the ward, where he before was kept, and brought him to the kings lodging, where he was serued according to his degrée.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 On the fiue and twentith day of the said moneth, the duke of Clarence accompanied with the earles of Warwike and Shrewesburie, the lord Strange, and other lords and gentlemen, some for feare, and some for loue, and some onelie to gaze at the waue|ring world, went to the Tower, and from thense brought king Henrie apparelled in a long gowne of blew veluet, through London to the church of saint Paule, the people on euerie side the streets reioising and crieng; God saue the king: as though ech thing had succéeded as they would haue had it: and when he had offered (as kings vse to doo) he was conueied to the bishops palace, where he kept his houshold like a king. [Thus was the principalitie posted ouer som|times to Henrie, sometimes to Edward; according to the swaie of the partie preuailing: ambition and disdaine still casting fagots on the fire, whereby the heat of hatred gathered the greater force to the con|sumption of the péeres and the destruction of the peo|ple. In the meane time, neither part could securelie possesse the regalitie, when they obteined it, which highmindednesse was in the end the ouerthrow of both principals and accessaries, according to the na|ture thereof noted in this distichon by the poet:

Fastus habet lites, offensis fastus abundat,

Fastus ad interitum praecipitare solet.]