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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The duke somewhat maruelling at his sudden pauses,Here endeth sir Thomas Moore, & this that followeth is taken out [...] master Hall. as though they were but parentheses, with a high countenance said: My lord, I euidentlie per|ceiue, and no lesse note your often breathing, and sud|den stopping in your communication; so that to my intelligence, your words neither come to anie direct or perfect sentence in conclusion, whereby either I might perceiue and haue knowledge, what your in|ward intent is now toward the king, or what affecti|on you beare toward me. For the comparison of good qualities ascribed to vs both (for the which I my selfe acknowledge and recognise to haue none, nor looke for no praise of anie creature for the same) ma|keth me not a little to muse, thinking that you haue some other priuie imagination, by loue or by grudge, ingrauen and imprinted in your heart, which for feare you dare not, or for childish shamefastnesse you be a|bashed to disclose and reueale; and speciallie to mee being your fréend, which on my honor doo assure you, to be as secret in this case, as the deafe and dumbe person is to the singer, or the tree to the hunter.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The bishop being somewhat bolder, considering the dukes promise, but most of all animated and in|couraged bicause he knew the duke desirous to bee exalted and magnified;Bishop Mor|ton buildeth vpõ the dukes ambition. and also he perceiued the in|ward hatred and priuie rancor which he bare toward king Richard: was now boldened to open his sto|mach euen to the verie bottome, intending thereby to compas [...] [...] to destroie, and vtterlie confound king Richa [...], and to depriue him of his dignitie roi|all; or else to set the duke so on fire with the desire of ambition, that he himselfe might be safe and escape out of all danger and perill. Which thing he brought shortlie to conclusion, both to the kings destruction, and the dukes confusion, and to his owne safegard, and finallie to his high promotion.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 And so (as I said before) vpon trust and confidence of the dukes promise, the bishop said: My singular good lord, since the time of my captiuitie, which being in your graces custodie, I may rather call it a libe|rall libertie, more than a streict imprisonment, in auoiding idlenesse, mother and nourisher of all vi|ces, in reading bookes and ancient pamphlets I haue found this sentence written, that no man is borne frée, and in libertie of himselfe onelie: for one part of dutie he oweth or should owe to his parents for his procreation, by a verie naturall instinct and filiall courtesie: another part to his fréends and kinsfolke; for proximitie of bloud and naturall amitie dooth eue|rie dutie chalenge and demand: but the natiue coun|trie, in the which he tasted first the swéet aires of this pleasant and flattering world after his natiuitie, de|mandeth as a debt by a naturall bond, neither to be forgotten, nor yet to be put in obliuion.

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