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And yet was he accompanied with a most rare, & almost perpetuall prosperitie euen from his yoong age, to the end of his life; desiring alwaies great things, and obteining most often that he desired. An example of much importance, to confound the arro|gancie of those men, who presuming to know and sée perfectlie with humane eies the depth of Gods iudge|ments doo assure, that what happeneth either good or ill to mortall men, procéedeth either of their merits or faults: as though we saw not dailie manie good men vniustlie tormented, & wicked persons aboue their deseruings liue in case and honour: wherein who makes an other interpretation, derogates the iustice and power of God, the greatnesse of which be|ing not to be conteined within any scripts or tearms present, knoweth how well and largely to discerne in an other time and place the iust from the vniust, and that with rewards and eternall punishments. In the meane time he powreth out his vengeance vpon the imaginers of mischéefe in this life; so prouiding, as that they are caught in their owne snares, and ouer|taken with such destruction as they had prepared for others, according to that saieng of the Psalmist:

Effodit puteum, foueámque eduxit ab imo,E [...]b. H [...]ss. & G Buch. in Psal. 7.
Et miser in latebras incidit ipse suas.
In verticem ipsius recurrit
Pernicies, recidúntque fraudes.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 At the same time died Giles lord Dawbenie the kings chéefe chamberleine, whose office Charles,The lord Daubenie dieth. ba|stard sonne to Henrie last duke of Summerset oc|cupied and enioied; a man of good wit, and great ex|perience. Soone after, the king caused Guidebald duke of Urbine to be elected knight of the order of the garter, Anno Reg 23. Guidebald duke of Ur|bin in Italie made knight of the garter. in like maner as his father duke Frede|rike had béene before him, which was chosen and ad|mitted into the order by king Edward the fourth. Sir Gilbert Talbot, and the other two ambassadors being appointed to kéepe on their iournie vnto pope Iulie the second, elected after the death of the said Pius the third, bare the habit and collar also vnto the said duke Guidebald; which after he had receiued the same, sent sir Balthasar Castalio, knight, a Man|trian borne, as his orator vnto king Henrie, which was for him installed, according to the ordinances of the order.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This yeare that worthie prelate Thomas Sa|uage archbishop of Yorke departed this life at his castell of Cawood:Thomas Sa|uage archbi|shop of Can|turburie de|ceassed. a man beside the worthinesse of his birth highlie estéemed with his prince for his fast fidelitie and great wisedome. He bestowed great cost in repairing the castell of Cawood and the ma|nor of Scrobie. His bodie was buried at Yorke, but he appointed by his testament, that his hart should be buried at Macclesfield in Cheshire, where he was borne, in a chapell there of his foundation, ioining to the south side of the church, meaning to haue founded a college there also, if his purpose had not béene pre|uented by death. After him succeeded doctor Ben|bridge in the archbishops sée of Yorke, being the fiftie and sixt archbishop that had sat in that see.

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