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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But in conclusion, euill counsell preuailed in a wit latelie minded to mischeefe, and turned from all goodnesse. So that his vn [...]ratious desire ouercame EEBO page image 751 his honest feare. And first to enter into the gates of his imagined enterprise, he absteined both from the bed and companie of his wife.A lo [...]ged cõ|plaine of king Richard a|gainst his wi [...] t [...] be rid of h [...]r. Then he complained to diuerse noble men of the realme, of the infortu|nate sterilitie and barennesse of his wife, bicause she brought foorth no fruit and generation of hir bo|die. And in especiall he recounted to Thomas Rothe|ram archbishop of Yorke (whome latelie he had deli|uered out of ward and captiuitie) these impediments of his queene, and diuerse other, thinking that he would reueale to hir all these things, trusting the se|quele hereof to take due effect, that she hearing this grudge of hir husband, & taking therefore an inward thought, would not long liue in this world.