At this time appeared betweene the pope and the French king a most great and streict coniuncton: for the king gaue to wife to Laurence his nephue,Aliance be|twixt the pope & the French king. the ladie Magdalen noblie descended of the bloud and house of Bullognie, with a yearelie reuenue of ten thousand crownes, whereof part was of the kings gift, and the residue rising of hir owne patrimonie. Besides, the king hauing borne to him a sonne, the pope required that in his baptisme, he would impose vpon him his name. By which occasion Laurence making preparations to go to marrie his new wife, for his more spéed, performed his iournie by post in|to France, where he was receiued with manie ami|ties and much honour of the king, to whome he be|came verie gratious and of deare account, the rather for that (besides other generall respects) he made a de|dication of himselfe wholie to the king, with promise to follow in all accidents, his fortune.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 And now to returne to cardinall Woolsie, who grew so into excéeding pride,The excessiue pride of the cardinall. that he thought him|selfe equall with the king. For when he said masse (which he did oftener to shew his pompe, rather than for anie deuotion) he made dukes and earles to serue him of wine, with a say taken, and to hold to him the bason at the lauatorie. Thus was the pride of the car|dinall and other priests so past the compasse of rea|son, that in maner all good persons abhorred and dis|deined it [as altogither degenerating from the ex|ample of Christ & his poore traine, of whome in name and title they séemed to be professors, but of their maners and trade of life open defiers; yea in such manifest sort, both in apparell and diet, as also in all other respects, that few there were (if they perceiued anie thing by discretion) but saw the euident abuses of their behauiours, tending greatlie to the disho|nour of the place which they possessed, as also to the no small offense of the modester sort of the cleargie, wherof some did so well like of this ruffling and mas|king presbyterie, that they abhorred it as strong poi|son in their broth.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 It fortuned that the archbishop of Canturburie wrote to the cardinall, anon after that he had recei|ued EEBO page image 848 his power legantine, the which letter after his old familiar maner he subscribed thus:The cardinall taketh it in scorne to be called brother by the archbi|shop. Your bro|ther William of Canturburie. With which subscrip|tion, bicause the archbishop wrote him brother, he was so much offended, as though the archbishop had doone him great iniurie, that he could not temper his mood, but in high displeasure said, that he would so worke within a while, that he should well vnderstand how he was his superiour, and not his brother. When the archbishop (being a sober wise man) heard of the messenger that bare the letter, how the cardinall tooke it not well, but so as it might seeme there was a great fault in the letter, and reported the tale as one that misliked the cardinals presumption herein: Peace (said the archbishop) knowest thou not how the man is become mad with too much ioy. And thus the cardinall forgetting to hold the right path of true laud and praise, sought to be feared rather than belo|ued of all good men.