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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Wherefore (by the aduise of his brethren and others of his councell) accordinglie as it had beene ordeined before this his last setting foorth from Warwike, he kept on his waie towards London, comming to Dantrie on the saturdaie at night: & on the morow being Palmesundaie, he heard seruice in the church there, & after rode to Northhampton, where he was ioifullie receiued. From thense he tooke the next way towards London, leauing continuallie behind him (as he passed foorth) a competent band of speares and archers, to beat backe such of the earle of Warwiks people, as peraduenture he might send abroad to trouble him and his armie by the waie. Which proui|dence and foresight he thought it not vnnecessarie to vse; for that he knew well enough, that the heart of an enimie, frieng in the fire of hatefull hostilitie, will pretermit no opportunitie either of time or place to laie in wait for his destruction, against whom he bea|reth an inward grudge, with a desire of vengeance to the death.