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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king, vpon consideration hereof, and percei|uing he could not get the earle to come foorth of Co|uentrie, departed from Warwike, and eftsoones she|wing himselfe with his people before the citie of Co|uentrie, desired the earle and his power to come foorth into the fields, that they might end their quarrell by battell: which the earle and the other lords with him vtterlie refused as then to doo. This was the fift of A|prill being fridaie. The king herevpon was resolued to march towards London,K. Edward passeth Lon|don. where his principall ad|uersarie king Henrie remained, vsing his kinglie authoritie by diuerse such of the nobilitie as were a|bout him, whereby king Edward was barred and dis|appointed of manie aids and assistants, which he was sure to haue, if he could once breake that force of the roiall authoritie, that was still thus exercised against him in king Henries name.