Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The messengers, being men both of wit and gra|uitie, so persuaded the quéene with great and preg|nant reasons, & what with faire and large promises, that she began somewhat to relent, and to giue to them no deafe eare; insomuch that she faithfullie pro|mised to submit and yéeld hir selfe fullie and franke|lie to the kings will and pleasure. And so she putting in obliuion the murther of hir innocent children, the infamie and dishonour spoken by the king hir hus|band, the liuing in adulterie laid to hir charge, the bastarding of hir daughters; forgetting also the faith|full promise and open oth made to the countesse of Richmond mother to the earle Henrie, blinded by auaricious affection, & seduced by flattering words, first deliuered into king Richards hands hir fiue daughters,The incon|stancie of Q. Elizabeth. as lambs once againe committed to the custodie of the rauenous woolfe.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 After she sent letters to the marquesse hir sonne, being then at Paris with the earle of Richmond, willing him in anie wise to leaue the earle, and with|out delaie to repaire into England,Quéene Eli|zabeth allu|reth hir sonne the marques [...]e Dorset home out of France where for him were prouided great honours, and honourable pro|motions; ascerteining him further, that all offenses on both parts were forgotten and forgiuen, and both he and she highlie incorporated in the kings heart. Suerlie the inconstancie of this woman were much to be maruelled at, if all women had béene found constant; but let men speake, yet women of the v [...]rie bond of nature will follow their owne sex. [But it was no small allurement that king Richard vsed to ouercome hir (for we know by experience that wo|men are of a proud disposition, and that the waie to win them is by promises of preferment) and there|fore it is the lesse maruell that he by his wilie wit had made conquest of hir wauering will. Besides that, it is to be presumed that she stood in feare to impugne his demands by denials, least he in his malicious mood might take occasion to deale roughlie with hir, being a weake woman, and of a timorous spirit.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Now when king Richard had thus with glorious promises, and flattering words, pleased and appeased the mutable mind of queene Elizabeth, which knew nothing lesse than that he most intended; he caused all his brothers daughters to be conueied into his palace with solemne receiuing: as though with his new familiar and louing interteinment they should forget, and in their minds blot out the old committed iniurie, and late executed tyrannie. Now nothing was contrarie and against his diuelish purpose, but that his mansion was not void of his wife, which thing he in any wise adiudged necessarie to be doon [...]. But there was one thing that so much feared and staied him from committing this abhominable mur|ther, bicause (as you haue heard before) he began to counterfet the image of a good and well disposed per|son: and therefore he was afeard least the sudden death of his wife once openlie knowne, he should loose the good and credible opinion which the people had of him, without anie desert, conceiued and repor|ted.