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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The cardinall shewed hir likewise, that the coun|cell therefore had sent him vnto hir, to require hir the deliuerie of him, that he might be brought vnto the kings presence at his libertie, out of that place, which they reckoned as a prison; and there should he be de|meaned according to his estate: and she in this doo|ing, should both doo great good to the realme, pleasure to the councell, and profit to hir selfe, succour to hir freends that were in distresse, and ouer that (which he wist well she speciallie tendered) not onelie great comfort and honor to the king, but also to the yoong duke himselfe, whose both great wealth it were to be togither, as well for manie greater causes, as also for their both disport & recreation.Protector. Which thing the lord estéemed no slight, though it séeme light, well ponde|ring that their youth without recreation and plaie cannot indure; nor anie stranger, for the conueni|ence of both their ages and estates, so méetlie in that point for anie of them, as either of them for other.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The quéenes answer.My lord (quoth the quéene) I saie not naie, but that it were verie conuenient, that this gentleman, whome yée require, were in companie of the king his brother: and in good faith, me thinketh it were as great commoditie to them both, as for yet awhile, to béene in the custodie of their mother, the tender age considered of the elder of them both, but speciallie the yoonger, which (besides his infancie, that also needeth good looking to) hath awhile béene so sore diseased, vex|ed with sicknesse, and is so newlie rather a little a|mended, than well recouered, that I dare put no per|son earthlie in trust with his kéeping, but my selfe onelie,The quéene is loth to part with hir son. considering that there is (as physicians saie) and as we also find, double the perill in the recidiua|tion, than was in the first sicknesse, with which disease nature being sore laboured, fore wearied and weake|ned, waxeth the lesse able to beare out and susteine a new surfet. And albeit there might be founden other that would happilie doo their best vnto him, yet is there none that either knoweth better how to order him, than I that so long haue kept him: or is more tenderlie like to cherish him, than his owne mother that bare him.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 No man denieth, good madame (quoth the cardi|nall) but that your grace were of all folke most ne|cessarie about your children: and so would all the councell not onelie be content, but glad that ye were (if it might stand with your pleasure) to be in such place as might stand with their honour. But if you doo appoint your selfe to tarrie héere, then thinke they it more conuenient that the duke of Yorke were with the king honourablie at his libertie, to the com|fort of them both: than héere as a sanctuarie man, to their both dishonour and obloquie, sith there is not al|waie so great necessitie to haue the child to be with the mother: but that occasion may sometime be such, that it should be more expedient to keepe him else|where. Which in this well appeareth, that at such time as your déerest sonne then prince, and now king, should for his honor, and good order of the countrie, keepe houshold in Wales, farre out of your com|panie: your grace was well content therewith your selfe.

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