Compare 1577 edition: 1 And if anie forren power, prince, or potentate,Further in|ducements to make the Scots for|ward in this mariage. or whosoeuer be your aider to nourish still discord, send you an armie also, how shall they oppresse you, fill your houses, waste your grounds, spend and con|sume your vittels, hold you in subiection, & regard you as slaues, which without them could not liue, & will take your quéene to bestow as they lust, & spe|ciallie if their ruler or king (as perchance he may be) in other warres be otherwise occupied, to be a preie to vs, & a true conquest, then it should be too late to saie; We will haue a mariage and no conquest, We wish peace & amitie, We are wearie of battell and miserie.A true saieng. The stubborne ouercommed must suffer the victors pleasure, and pertinacitie will make the victorie more insolent, whereof you your selfe haue giuen the cause, if they send monie and capteines, but no souldiers. First if they be capteins, who ru|leth and who dooth obeie? Who shall haue the honor of the enterprise, and if it be well atchiued? But whe|ther it be well atchiued or no, which number is that which shall be slaine? Whose bloud shall be shed? Their monie peraduenture shalbe consumed, & their commandements obeied. But whose bodies shall smart for it? Whose lands shall be wasted?The lord pro|tector pointeth (as it were) at the inconueni|ences which he would haue the Scots to preuent. Whose houses burned? What realme made desolate? Re|member what it is to haue a forren power within you, a strong power of your enimies vpon you, you (as it were) the campe & plaine betwixt them to fight on, & to be troden vpon, both of the victor, and of the ouercommed. And imagine you see before your eies your wiues & daughters in danger of wantonnesse & insolencie of the soldiors, the proud looks of the cap|teins & soldiors, whom you call to helpe you, the con|tempt you shall bring your nation in, then take heed least indeed that follow which you feare, that is, that you shall be by them conquered, that ye shall be by them put from your holds, lands, taxes & offices, that your laws by them shall be altered, that your nation shall be by them destroied. Consider in this realme,Examples confirming the former as|sertion. did not the Britons call in the Saxons for helpe, & by them were put out? Where be the Picts, once a gret nation betwixt you and vs? How did the nation of France put out the Galles out of all France? How got the Turk first all Grecia, & now of late all Hun|garie, but being called in for to aid & helpe? And did not the Goths by like meanes get all Italie, and the Lombards one part therof now called Lombardie? What looke you for more? Néedie soldiors, & hauing their weapons in their hands, and knowing that you cannot liue without them, what will not they com|mand you to doo? What will they not incroch vpon you? What will they not thinke they may doo?Insolencie o [...] soldiors and l [...]wlesse licen|tiousnesse. And what will they thinke that you dare doo? This forren helpe is your confusion, that succour is your detri|ment, the victorie so had is your seruitude: what is then to be thought of losse taken with them? The strangers and forren soldiors shall oppresse you with|in, our power and strength without; and of your owne nation, so manie as loue quietnesse, godlines, and wealth of your realme, shall helpe also to scourge and afflict you.The issue of the lord pro|tectors e [...]t [...]tation. Is it not better to compose and ac|quite all this calamitie and trouble by marriage, to end all sorrows and battels by such and so honorable a peace? Hath not the emperor Spaine & Burgun|die by title of marriage? How holdeth the French king Britaine now latelie annexed to that crowne, EEBO page image 1001 but by title of marriage? How haue all the great princes of the world happilie and with quiet made of two kingdoms one, of diuerse lordships one, of nations alwaies at warre with themselues, or else in doubtfull peace, one well gouerned kingdome, rule, and dominion, but by that godlie, most quiet, and most amiable composition of marriage? Two meanes there be of making one rule,Two meanes or waies of making one regiment or [...] wherto title is pretended, and perfect agréement betwixt two nati|ons, either by force or superioritie, which is conquest; or by equalitie and loue, which is by parentage & ma|riage: you hate the one, that is, conquest; and by refu|sing the other, you inforce vpon you hatred & malice.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 You will not haue peace, you will not haue ali|ance, you will not haue concord; and conquest com|meth vpon you whether you will or no. And yet if all things were considered, we feare it will appeere that it were better for you to be conquered of vs, than succoured of strangers, lesse losse to your goods, lesse hurt to your lands, lesse dishonor to your realme; this nation which is one in toong, one in countrie and birth, hauing so little diuersitie to occupie the whole, than other powers come in to you, neither like in language, nor yet like in behauior, who should rule ouer you, and take you to be but their slaues. But we eftsoons and finallie declare and protest vnto you, that although for the better furtherance of this god|lie purpose of vniting the realmes,The lord pro| [...]tor protest|eth what the kings deter|mination is. and for the sure defense of them which fauour the marriage, we are compelled for the time to keepe holds, and to make fortifications in your realme: yet the kings maie|sties mind and determinat pleasure is, with our ad|uise and counsell to be as before is declared, that where fauour may be shewed, not to vse rigor, if by conditions you will receiue this amitie offered, not to follow conquest: for we desire loue, vnitie, concord, peace and equalitie. Let neither your go|uernor nor your kirkemen, nor those, who so often haue falsified their faith and promise, [...]nitem to the Scotish go| [...]ernor and [...]irkemen, &c. and by treache|rie and falshood be accustomed to proroge the time, féed you foorth with faire words, and bring you into the snare from whence they cannot deliuer you. They will peraduenture prouide for themselues with pen|sions in some other realme, and set soldiors stran|gers in your holds to kéepe you in subiection, vnder the pretense to defend them against vs. But who prouideth pensions for you? How are you defended when they are fled away? Who conquereth you when the strange capteins haue your holds, when your land is wasted, and the realme destroied, and the more part kept from you? Who will set by the mariage of the quéene to buie a title with the war of England; to marrie the name, an other mightie king holding the land?What Eng|land & Scot|land might do being made [...] by amitie. If we two being made one by amitie, be most able to defend vs against all nations, and hauing the sea for wall, the mutuall loue for garrison, & God for defense, should make so noble and well agréeing mo|narchie, that neither in peace we may be ashamed, nor in war afraid of anie worldlie or forren power: whie should not you be as desirous of the same, and haue as much cause to reioise at it as we? If this ho|nor of so noble a monarchie doo not moue you to take and accept amitie, let the griefe and the danger of the aforenamed losses feare you to attempt that thing which shall displease God, increase warre, danger your realme, destroie your land, vndoo your children, wast your grounds, desolate your countries, and bring all Scotland either to famine & miserie, or to subiection and seruitude of an other nation. We re|quire but your promised quéene, your offered agrée|ment of vnitie,Nothing re| [...]red of the Scots that was not pro| [...]sed by them. the ioining of both the nations, which God of his infinite clemencie and tender loue that he hath declared to beare to both the nations, hath offe|red vnto vs both, and in manner called vs both vnto it, whose calling and prouocation we haue, and will folow to the best of our powers, and in his name, and with his aid, admonition, exhortation, requests, and ambassages, not being able to doo it, and to find sta|blenesse in promises, we shall not willing, but con|streined pursue the battell, chastise the wicked & ma|licious by the angrie angels of God, fire and sword.Fire & sword Gods angrie angels.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Wherefore we require and exhort you all, who haue loue to the countrie, pitie of that realme, a true hart to your quéene and mis [...]resse, regard of your honors and promises made by the great seale of Scotland, and who fauoureth the peace, loue, vnitie, and concord and that most profitable marriage to en|ter and come to vs; and declaring your true and god|lie harts thervnto, to aid vs in this most godlie pur|pose and enterprise. To be witnesse of our dooings we refuse no man, temporall nor spirituall,An argument of vpright me|ning that re|suieth no wit|nesse. lord ne lard, gentleman nor other, who will aid this our pur|pose, and minish the occasion of slaughter and de|struction, to whom we shall kéepe the promises here|tofore declared, and further sée reward and recom|pense made according to the desert.