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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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Which saieng causeth me to consider in what case this realme my natiue countrie now standeth and in what estate and assurance (before this time) it hath continued: what gouernour we now haue, and what ruler we might haue. For I plainelie perceiue the realme being in this case, must needs decaie, and be brought to vtter confusion, and finall extermination. But one hope I haue incorporat in my brest, that is, when I consider,The duke of Buckingham highlie com|mended. and in my mind doo diligentlie re|member, and dailie behold your noble personage, your iustice, and indifferencie, your feruent zeale, and ardent loue toward your naturall countrie, and in like manner, the loue of your countrie toward you, the great learning, pregnant wit, and goodlie elo|quence, which so much dooth abound in the person of your grace, I must needs thinke this realme fortu|nate, yea twise more than fortunate, which hath such a prince in store, méet and apt to be a gouernour, in whose person (being indued with so manie princelie qualities) consisteth and resteth the verie vndoubted similitude and image of true honour.

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