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Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Howbeit, some writers of that time, fauoring al|togither the house of Yorke, haue recorded, that af|ter he vnderstood what losses had chanced vnto his fréends, and how not onelie his sonne, but also all other his chéefe partakers were dead and dispatched, he tooke it so to hart, that of pure displeasure, indig|nation, and melancholie, he died the three and twen|tith of Maie. The dead corps on the Ascension euen was conueied with billes and glaues pompouslie (if EEBO page image 691 you will call that a funerall pompe) from the Tower to the church of saint Paule,The nine and twentith of Maie. and there laid on a beire or coffen bare faced, the same in presence of the be|holders did bléed; where it rested the space of one whole daie. From thense he was caried to the Black|friers, and bled there likewise: and on the next daie after, it was conueied in a boat, without priest or clerke, torch or taper, singing or saieng, vnto the monasterie of Chertfeie, distant from London fif|téene miles, and there was it first buried: but after, it was remooued to Windesor, and there in a new vawt, newlie intoomed. He reigned eight and thir|tie yeares, six moneths and od daies, and after his readeption of the crowne six moneths. He liued two and fiftie yeares, hauing by wife one onelie sonne, called Edward, prince of Wales.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 He was of a seemelie stature, of bodie slender, to which proportion all other members were answer|able; his face beautifull, wherein continuallie was resident the bountie of mind with the which he was inwardlie indued. Of his owne naturall inclinati|on he abhorred all the vices as well of the bodie as of the soule. His patience was such, that of all the in|iuries to him doone (which were innumerable) he ne|uer asked vengeance, thinking that for such aduersi|tie as chanced to him, his sinnes should be forgot|ten and forgiuen. What losses soeuer happened vnto him, he neuer esteemed, nor made anie account ther|of; but if anie thing were doone, that might sound as an offense towards God, he sore lamented, and with great repentance sorowed for it.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 So then verie vnlike it is, that he died of anie wrath, indignation, and displeasure bicause his bu|sinesse about the kéeping of the crowne on his head tooke no better successe: except peraduenture ye will saie, that it gréeued him, for that such slaughters and mischéeues as had chanced within this land, came to passe onelie through his follie and default in gouern|ment: or (that more is) for his fathers, his grandfa|thers, and his owne vniust vsurping and deteining of the crowne. But howsoeuer it was, for these before remembred, and other the like properties of reputed holinesse, which was said to rest in him, it pleased God to worke miracles for him in his life time, as men haue listed to report.

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