¶ All this dissention and strife was kindled (no doubt) by the meanes of certeine sowers of discord, sycophants, parasits, flatterers, clawbacks, & picke|thanks, who had learned their lesson, that
Principibus placuisse viris non vltima laus est,and thinking by their embossed spéech to tickle the eares and harts of the yoong princes, who by reason of their yoong yeares and nakednesse of experience in the course of worldlie maters, sought their owne aduancement, euen by flinging firie faggots of dis|sention betweene them, whose harts naturall affecti|on had vnited. For by the tenor of the storie (marke it who will) we shall fée that no attempt of the sons against the father but had originall from the sugge|stions of euill disposed persons, who (like eeles that fatten not in faire running water, but in muddie motes and ponds) sought honour in hurlie burlies, & reached out long armes to riches by manie a ones impouerishment. This to be true, the small euent and issue prooueth; namelie, the mutuall attonement and reconciliation wouen betweene the father and the sonnes; their remorse for their vndutifulnes, his louing fauour and gratiousnesse; their promptnesse to yéeld to conditions of agreement, his forwardnes to giue consent to couenants required; their readi|nesse to doo the old king homage, his acceptable ad|mission EEBO page image 95 of their proferred seruice; with other circum|stances to be collected out of the storie, all which doo prooue that this their disloiall resistance sprang ra|ther by others incitement, than of their owne seek|ing. Thus we sée what alterations happen in the acti|ons of men, and that euill things manie times (though naturallie bad) doo inferre their contraries, as one aptlie saith,
Discordia fit charior concordia.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Willi. king of Scots deliue|red out of pri|son with otherAt length king Henrie went to Faleise, and there deliuered out of captiuitie William king of Scot|land, Robert earle of Leicester, Hugh earle of Che|ster, with diuerse other Noble men which were kept there as prisoners, putting them to their ransomes, and receiuing of them pledges with an oth of alle|giance. This king Henrie the father released for his part the number of nine hundred 69. knights or men of armes (if yée list so to terme them) which had beene taken since the beginning of these passed warres. Matth. Paris. Prisoners re|leased.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 As for king Henrie the sonne he also set at liber|tie aboue an hundred, and that without ransome paieng, according to the articles of the peace (as be|fore you haue heard.) But yet some (as is alreadie specified) were excepted out of the benefit of that arti|cle, as William king of Scotland, who being not a|ble to paie his ransome in present monie, deliuered vp in gage foure of the strongest castels within his realme into king Henries hands, namelie, Bar|wike,Castels deli|uered by the K. of Scots. Edenbourgh, Roxbourgh, and Sterling, with condition, that if he brake the peace, and paied not the monie behind due for his raunsome, king Henrie and his successours should enioy for euer the same castels. He also couenanted, not to receiue any English rebels into his realme. Other write that the king of Scots did not onelie become the king of Englands liegeman at this time, N. Triuet. Matth. Paris. and couenanted to doo homage vnto him for the realme of Scotland, and all other his lands, but also deliuered the castels of Barwike, and Roxbourgh to be possessed of the same king of England and his heires for euer, with|out any couenant mentioned of morgage.