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Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now was this proclamation made within two houres after that he was beheaded, and it was so cu|riouslie indicted, & so faire written in parchment, in so well a set hand, and therewith of it selfe so long a processe, that euerie child might well perceiue that it was prepared before. For all the time, betwéene his death and the proclaming, could scant haue sufficed vnto the bare writing alone, all had it bene but in pa|per, and scribled foorth in hast at aduenture. So that vpon the proclaming thereof, one that was schoole|maister of Powles, of chance standing by, and com|paring the shortnesse of the time with the length of the matter, said vnto them that stood about him; Here is a gaie goodlie cast foule cast awaie for hast. And a merchant answered him, that it was written by pro|phesie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now then by and by, as it were for anger, not for couetise,Shores [...] spoiled of [...] that she had the protector sent into the house of Shores wife (for hir husband dwelled not with hir) and spoiled hir of all that euer she had, aboue the value of two or three thousand markes, and sent hir bodie to prison. And when he had a while laid vnto hir (for the maner sake) that she went about to bewitch him, and that she was of counsell with the lord chamberleine to destroie him: in conclusion, when that no colour could fasten vpon these matters, then he laid heinouslie to hir charge, that thing that hir selfe could not denie, and that all the world wist was true, and that nathe|lesse euerie man laughed at, to heare it then so sud|denlie so highlie taken, that shee was naught of hir bodie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 And for this cause (as a goodlie continent prince, cleane and faultlesse of himselfe,Shores [...] put to open penance. sent out of heauen into this vicious world for the amendment of mens maners) he caused the bishop of London to put hir to open penance, going before the crosse in processi|on vpon a sundaie with a taper in hir hand. In which she went in countenance and pase demure so wo|manlie; that albeit she were out of all araie, saue hir kirtle onelie, yet went she so faire and louelie, name|lie while the woondering of the people cast a comelie rud in hir cheeks (of which she before had most misse) that hir great shame wan hir much praise among those that were more amorous of hir bodie, than cu|rious of hir soule. And manie good folks also that ha|ted hir liuing, & glad were to see sin corrected: yet piti|ed they more hir penance, than reioised therin, when they considered that the protector procured it, more of a corrupt intent, than anie vertuous affection.

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