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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 And for a more sure proofe and plainer token of the good mind and will which we beare vnto you, that which neuer yet was granted to Scotland in anie league, truce, or peace betwixt England and Scot|land, because yée shall haue proofe of the beginning of loue and amitie of both the realmes: the kings highnes considering the multitude of them which are come to his maiesties deuotion,The kings grant as a proofe of the beginning of loue betwéene England and Scotland. and of them that be well-willers and aiders of this godlie enterprise, hath by our aduise and counsell granted, and by these presents doth grant, that from henceforth all maner of merchants and other Scotishmen, who will enter their names with one of the wardens of the mar|ches, & there professe to take part with vs in this be|fore named godly purpose, to his owne commoditie, & to serue all such as be of the same agréement, may lawfullie and without anie trouble and vexation en|ter into anie port, créeke, or hauen of England, and there vse their traffike of merchandize, buie and sell, bring in the commodities of Scotland, and take and carrie foorth the commodities of England, as libe|rallie and as fréelie, and with the same and none o|ther custome or paiments therefore, than English|men and the kings subiects doo at this present: min|ding further vpon the successe hereof to gratifie so the furtherers of this most godlie enterprise and vni|on, that all the world may be witnesse of the great zeale and loue which his highnesse dooth beare toward you and your nation. And all this the kings high|nesse, by our aduise and counsell, hath willed to be declared vnto you; and giuen in commandement vnto vs, and all his lieutenants, wardens, rulers, and other head officers, ministers, and subiects, to sée executed and doone, according to the true purport, effect, and meaning thereof. Fare you well.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Although this admonition and wholsome exhor|tation might haue mooued the Scots to haue regar|ded their owne state, yet it litle auailed,The Scots reiect the be|nefit of this exhortation. as by the se|quele it appeared. For hauing both great promises made by the French, and now considering therewith the hurlie burlies and tumults that sproong vp in England, they continued in their obstinat purposes, not to yéeld vnto such reasonable motions as had béene offered, if they would haue shewed themselues conformable thereto, and not haue so stubbornlie de|nied to submit themselues to that which of right they were bound vnto. So that herein they shewed them|selues verie peruerse and wilfull, reiecting not one|lie the good aduise that the duke gaue them, but also not so much as once thinking what might insue to their great mischéefe vpon their refusall, and what be|nefit EEBO page image 1002 redound to them by admitting the offer: naie, they were of opinion and beléefe, that if so braue a bootie might befall England, it would be an occasion of great ruth and wretchednesse to Scotland: as one of late hath affirmed in his poeticall supposall:

—si haec praeda Britannis

Cederet, ô miserae Scotiae mis [...]rabile regnum,

Genti infelici nihil est nisiflere relictum.