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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Canonizing of kings, [...].By reason whereof, king Henrie the seauenth sued to Pope Iulio the second, to haue him canoni|zed a saint. But for that the canonizing of a king sée|med to be more costlie than for a bishop, the said king left off his sute in that behalfe; thinking better to saue his monie, than to purchase a new holie daie of saint Henrie with so great a price, Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 730, 731, &c. remitting to God the iudgement of his will and intent. ¶But bicause princes princelie qualified, can not be too highlie praised, I will here record a collection of his com|mendable conditions, dooings, and saiengs, as I find them set downe to my hand, to his perpetuall re|nowme; and right worthie of imitation, not onelie of such as are singled out from among infinite thou|sands, to be magnified with roialtie; but also of pri|uat and meane men that conuerse and liue one with an other in the world.

This king hauing inioied as great prosperitie as fauourable fortune could afoord, & as great troubles on the other side as she frowning could powre out; yet in both the states he was patient and vertuous, that he maie be a patterne of most perfect vertue, as he was a worthie example of fortunes inconstan|cie. He was plaine, vpright, farre from fraud, wholie giuen to praier, reading of scriptures, and almes|deeds; of such integritie of life, that the bishop which had béene his confessour ten yeares, auouched that he had not all that time committed anie mortall crime: so continent, as suspicion of vnchast life ne|uer touched him: and hauing in Christmasse a shew of yoong women with their bare breasts laid out pre|sented before him, he immediatlie departed with these words:

Fie, fie, for shame; forsooth you be too blame.

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