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Compare 1577 edition: 1 While he thus heauilie dragged behind his host, the whole armie came before the towne of Tam|woorth; and when he for the deepe darknesse could not perceiue the steps of them that passed on before, and had wandered hither & thither, séeking after his com|panie, and yet not once hearing anie noise or whispe|ring of them; he turned to a verie little village, be|ing about thrée miles from his armie,The earle of Richmond put to [...] shift. taking great thought, and much fearing least he should be espied, and so trapped by king Richards scoutwatch. There EEBO page image 755 he taried all night, not once aduenturing to aske or demand a question of any creature, he being no more amazed with the ieopardie & perill that was passed, than with this present chance, sore feared that it shuld be a prognostication or signe of some infortunate plage afterward to succeed. As he was not merie be|ing absent from his armie, so likewise his armie much maruelled, and no lesse mourned for his sudden absence.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The next morning earlie in the dawning of the day he returned, and by the conduct of good fortune, espied and came to his armie, excusing himselfe not to haue gone out of the way by ignorance: but that for a policie (deuised for the nonce) he went from his campe to receiue some glad message from certeine of his priuie fréends and secret alies. This excuse made, he priuilie departed againe from his host to the towne of Aderston,T [...]e lord Stanleie, the earle of Rich|mond, & others [...], embrace, and consult. where the lord Stanleie and sir Willi|am his brother with their bands were abiding. There the erle came first to his father in law, in a litle close, where he saluted him, and sir William his brother: and after diuerse and fréendlie imbracings, each re|ioised of the state of other, and suddenlie were surpri|sed with great ioy, comfort, and hope of fortunate successe in all their affaires and dooings. Afterward they consulted togither how to giue battell to king Richard if he would abide, whome they knew not to be farre off with an huge host.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 In the euening of the same day, sir Iohn Sauage, sir Brian Sanford,The princi|pals of K. Ri|chards power [...] from him. sir Simon Digbie, and manie o|ther, leauing king Richard, turned and came to the part of the earle of Richmond, with an elect compa|nie of men. Which refusall of king Richards part, by men of such experience, did augment and increase both the good hope, and the puissance of the earle of Richmond. In the meane season, king Richard which was appointed now to finish his last labor by the very diuine iustice & prouidence of God (which called him to condigne punishment for his mischiefous deserts) marched to a place méet for two battels to incounter, by a village called Bosworth, not farre from Lei|cester: and there he pitched his field on a hill called Anne Beame, refreshed his souldiers, and tooke his rest.

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