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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But on the other side,Dispraise of the lord pro|tector or king messe. when I call to memorie the good qualities of the late protector, and now called king, so violated and subuerted by tyrannie, so chan|ged and altered by vsurped authoritie, so clouded and shadowed by blind and insatiable ambition; yea, and so suddenlie (in manner by a metamorphosis) trans|formed from politike ciuilitie, to detestable tyrannie: I must needs saie, & iustlie affirme, that he is neither méet to be a king of so noble a realme, nor so famous a realme méet to be gouerned by such a tyrant [whose kingdome (if it were of more amplenesse than it is) could not long continue; neither would the Lord suf|fer him in his bloudthirstines to abuse the holie and diuine estate of a prince by the cruell title of tyran|nie. For such he will ouerthrow, yea he will bring most horrible slaughter vpõ them, as it is prophesied

Impius ad summos quamuis ascendat honores,

Aspice quas clades tempora saeua vehent.