Compare 1577 edition: 1 For the custome of the countries adioining néere to the sea is (especiallie in the time of warre) on eue|rie hill or high place to erect a beacon with a great lanterne in the top,The vse of beacons in countries néere the sea coasts. which may be séene and discerned a great space off. And when the noise is once bruted that the enimies approch neere the land, they sudden|lie put fire in the lanternes, and make shouts and outcries from towne to towne, and from village to village. Some run in post from place to place, admo|nishing the people to be readie to resist the ieopardie, and defend the perill. And by this policie the fame is soone blowne to euerie citie and towne, in somuch that aswell the citizens as the rurall people be in short space assembled and armed, to repell and put backe the new arriued enimies. [Whereas if the ne|cessarie vse of this visible warning were neglected, the policie of the enimie might priuilie so preuaile, as that the people should sooner fall into perill irre|couerable, than they could thinke on (much lesse pro|uide) meanes to auoid it.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now to returne to our purpose. King Richard thus somewhat eased of his accustomed pensiuenesse, began to be a little more merrie, & tooke lesse thought and care for outward enimies than he was woont to doo; as who say, that he with politike prouision should withstand the destinie which hoong ouer his head, and was ordeined in briefe time suddenlie to fall. Such is the force and puissance of diuine iustice, that euerie man shall lesse regard, lesse prouide, lesse be in doubt of all things, when he is most néerest punishment, and next to his mischance for his offenses & crimes. [For though God did forbeare him a while, yet was that forbearance no acquittance, but rather a time of preparing & making vp that which wanted of the plagues that God had purposed in iustice to powre vpon and ouerwhelme him for his fowle offenses, which could not scape heauie iudgment & vengeance:

Nam scelus admissum poena seuera premit.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 About this season, while the earle of Richmond was desiring aid of the French king, certeine noble men were appointed to rule the realme of France, during the minoritie of king Charles, which amongst themselues were not of one opinion.Dissention a|mong the péeres of France made the earle of Richmond re|new his sute and put him to his shifts. Of which dissen|tion, Lewes duke of Orleance was the chiefe stirrer, who bicause he had maried ladie Ioane sister to the French king, tooke vpon him aboue other the rule and administration of the whole realme. By reason of which controuersie, no one man was suffered to rule all. Wherefore the earle of Richmond was compel|led to make sute to euerie one of the councell seue|rallie one after another, requiring and desiring them of aid and reliefe in his weightie businesse, and so his cause was prolonged and deferred. During which time, Thomas marquesse Dorset, which was (as you haue heard) intised by his mother to returne againe into England, partlie despairing in the good successe of the earle of Richmond, and partlie ouercome and vanquished with the faire glosing promises of king Richard: secretlie in the night season stale out of Paris,The marque [...] Dorset forsa|keth the earle. and with all diligent expedition tooke his iournie toward Flanders.