Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In this was he the more studious, bicause he saw that such an accord should bring great quietnesse to the land, and deliuer the common-wealth of manie dangers that might insue by reason of such numbers of partakers, as well lords as other that were confe|derat with the earle. The said duke treated with the king present,The duke of Clarence seé|keth to make peace betwixt the king and the earle of Warwike. and sent messengers vnto Couentrie to the earle, moouing as well the one as the other most instantlie to frame their minds vnto a pacifica|tion. The king at the instance of his brother was contented to offer large conditions, and verie benefi|ciall for the earle and his partakers if they would haue accepted them.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But the earle, whether vtterlie despairing of his owne safetie, if he should agrée to anie peace; or else happilie for that he thought it stood with his honour to stand vnto such promises and couenants as he had made with the French king, and with the quéene Margaret, and hir sonne prince Edward (to whome he was bound by oth not to shrinke [...] swarue from the same) he refused all maner of such conditions as were offered. Insomuch that when the duke had sent to him, both to excuse himselfe of the [...] which he had doone, and also to require him to take some good waie with king Edward, now while he might, the earle (af|ter he had patientlie heard the dukes message) he sée|med greatlie to abhorre his vnfaithfull dealing, in turning thus from his confederats and alies, con|trarie to his oth and fidelitie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 To the messengers (as some write) he gaue none other answer but this,The earle [...] Warwike [...]swer to the duke of C [...]+rence [...]. that he had rather be like him|selfe, than like a false and periured duke; and that he was fullie determined neuer to leaue warre, till he had either lost his owne life, or vtterlie subdued his enimies. As it was thought, the earle of Oxenfords persuasion wanted not, to make him the more stif|lie to hold out; and rather to trie the vttermost hazard of warre, than to agrée to acknowledge king Ed|ward for his lawfull souereigne lord and king. Wher|vpon no appointment nor anie agréement at all could be brought to passe; and so all that treatie, which the duke of Clarence had procured, brake off & tooke none effect. There came to the earle of Warwike, whilest he laie thus at Couentrie (besides the earle of Oxenford) the duke of Excester, and the lord mar|quesse Montacute, by whose comming that side was greatlie strengthened, and the number much increa|sed.