Compare 1577 edition: 1 And for so much as two successors cannot con|curre and fall into one,The case of [...] coniunctiõ [...] mariage of [...] two yoong princes tou| [...]ed. by no other maner of meanes than by marriage, wherby one bloud, one linage, one parentage is made of two, and an indefensible right giuen of both to one, without the destruction and abo|lishing of either. If God should grant that whatso|euer you would wish, other than that which now not by fortune hath chanced, but by his infinit mercie and most inscrutable prouidence, as carefull for you he hath giuen vnto you. The which thing that you should also thinke to come of his disposition, and not by blind fortune, how vnlike hath it beene, and how suddenlie hath it turned, that the power of God might be shewed: your last king being a prince of much excellencie and yoong, whom you know after a promise broken contrarie to his honor, & misfortune by Gods iust iudgement following vpon it, God ei|ther by sorrow or by some meanes otherwise at his inscrutable pleasure, did take awaie from you, had thrée children, did not almightie God (as it were) to shew his will and pleasure to be, that the long conti|nued warre and enimitie of both the nations should be taken awaie,The course of [...] iust [...]dgement in t [...]is example [...]able. and knit in perpetuall loue and ami|tie, take the two men-children of those babes being distant the one from the other, and in diuerse places, both as it were at one time, and within the space of foure and twentie houres, leauing but one maiden-child and princesse?

Compare 1577 edition: 1 When the most wise and victorious prince late our king and maister, king Henrie the eight, in o|ther of his mariages not most fortunate, had by his most lawfull and most vertuous wife, quéene Iane, his otther two wiues before that mariage departed this world, and neuer surmise nor question made of that mariage, since that time to this daie, nor so much as all hir life time, name or motion to or of a|nie other wife, one prince of so high expectation, of so great gifts of God, the right and vndoubted heire of the realme of England and his maiestie onelie of male issue left behind him to succéed the imperiall crowne. If nothing else had béene doone, what can anie wise or anie christian man that thinketh the world to be gouerned by Gods proui|dence and not by fortune, thinke otherwise, but that it was Gods pleasure it should be so,The lord pro|te [...]tor infor| [...]eth by [...]itchie persuasions a perpetuall [...]itie be|twéene the [...] realms [...] the foresaid [...]. that these two realmes should ioine in mariage, and by a godlie sa|crament, make a godlie, perpetuall and most friend|lie vnitie & concord, whereby such benefits as of vni|tie and concord commeth, may through his infinit grace come vnto these realmes. Or if anie man of you or of anie nation doubteth hereof, except you looked for miracles to be doone herein, and yet if ye marke all the possibilities of the natures of the two princes, the children alreadie had, the doubtfull chance, least each of them should haue a sonne, or both daughters, or not of méet ages, with other cir|cumstances both of the partie of this realme of England, and that of Scotland, which hath not chan|ced in eight hundred yeares, it must néeds be rec|koned a great maruell and a miracle.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 But let it be no miracle, séeing that God dooth not now speake in oracles, as amongest the Iewes he did: and present prophesies now adaies be but ei|ther not certeine, or else not plaine: what more cer|teine can be had of Gods will in this case, than the before rehearsed dooth bring? But if God himselfe should speake, what could he speake more, than he speaketh in these?The lord pro|tector still vr|geth peace and amitie. Call you them prouidences or chances, if you be still afflicted and punished? Maie he not saie: I of mine infinite mercie and loue to your nation, had prouided a right heire and a prince to the one, and a right heire and princesse to the o|ther, to be ioined in my holie lawes, and by the lawe of nature and the world to haue made an vni|tie, concord and peace, in the which Isle of both the realmes you refused it; you loued better dissention than vnitte, discord than agréement, warre than peace, hatred than loue and charitie. If you doo then therefore smart for it, whome can you blame but your owne election?