Compare 1577 edition: 1 After that maister Arden was come home, hee sent (as he vsuallie did) his man to Shepeie to sir Tho|mas Cheinie, then lord warden of the cinque ports, about certeine businesse, and at his comming awaie, he had a letter deliuered sent by sir Thomas Cheinie to his maister. When he came home, his mist resse tooke the letter and kept it, willing hir man to tell his maister, that he had a letter deliuered him by sir Thomas Cheinie, and that he had lost it; adding that he thought it best that his maister should go the next morning to sir Thomas, bicause he knew not the matter: he said he would, and therefore he willed his man to be stirring betimes. In this meane while, blacke Will,Ardens wife visiteth, suc|coureth, em|bold [...]eth, and directeth black Will &c: how to accomplish his bloudie purpose. and one George Shake bag his compa|nion, were kept in a storehouse of sir Anthonie A|gers at Preston, by Greenes appointment: and thi|ther came mistresse Arden to sée him, bringing and sending him meat and drinke manie times. He ther|fore lurking there, and watching some opportunitie for his purpose, was willed in anie wise to be vp earlie in the morning, to lie in wait for maister Ar|den in a certeine broome close, betwixt Feuersham & the ferrie (which close he must néeds passe) there to doo his feat. Now blacke Will stirred in the morning be|times, but mist the waie, & taried in a wrong place.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Maister Arden & his man comming on their waie earlie in the morning towards Shornelan, where sir Thomas Cheinie laie: as they were almost come to the broome close,Note here the force of feare and a troubled conscience. his man alwaies fearing that blacke Will would kill him with his maister, feined that he had lost his pursse; Why said his maister, thou foolish knaue, couldst thou not looke to thy pursse but loose it? What was in it? Thrée pounds said he. Why then go thy waies backe againe like a knaue (said his maister) and séeke it, for being so earlie as it is, there is no man stirring, and therefore thou maist be sure to find it, and then come and ouertake me at the ferrie. But neuerthelesse, by reason that blacke Will lost his way, maister Arden escaped yet once againe. At that time, blacke Will yet thought hée should haue beene sure to haue met him homewards: but whether that some of the lord wardens men accom|panied him backe to Feuersham, or that being in doubt,Blacke Will yet againe disappointed. for that it was late to go through the broome close, and therfore tooke another waie, blacke Will was disappointed then also.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But now saint Ualentines faire being at hand, the conspirators thought to dispatch their diuelish in|tention at that time.A pr [...]pens [...]d quarel against Arden by the conspirators. Mosbie minded to picke some quarrell to maister Arden at the faire to fight with him; for he said he could not find in his heart to mur|ther a gentleman in that sort as his wife wished: al|though she had made a solemne promise to him, and he againe to hir, to be in all points as man and wife togither, and therevpon they both receiued the sacra|ment on a sundaie at London, openlie in a church there. But this deuise to fight with him would not serue, for maister Arden both then and at other times had beene greatlie prouoked by Mosbie to fight with him, but he would not. Now Mosbie had a sister that dwelt in a tenement of maister Ardens néere to his house in Feuersham: and on the faire éeuen,Ardens wi [...]e, blacke Will, & the knot of vilans meet and conclude vpon their for|mer prepensed mischiefe. blacke Will was sent for to come thither, and Gréene brin|ging him thither, met there with mistresse Arden, ac|companied with Michaell hir man, and one of hir maids. There were also Mosbie and George Shake|bag, and there they deuised to haue killed him in ma|ner as afterwards he was. But yet Mosbie at the first would not agree to that cowardlie murthering of him, but in a furie floong awaie, and went vp the abbeie stréet toward the flower de lice, the house of the aforenamed Adam Foule, where he did often host. But before he came thither now at this time, a messenger ouertooke him, that was sent from mi|stres Arden, desiring him of all loues to come backe againe to helpe to accomplish the mater he knew of. Herevpon he returned to hi [...] againe, and at his com|ming backe, she fell downe vpon hir knées to him,O importu|nate & blou|die minded strumpet! and besought him to go through with the matter, as if he loued hir he would be content to doo, sith as shee had diuerse times told him, he néeded not to doubt, for there was not anie that would care for his death, nor make anie great inquirie for them that should dispatch him.