Compare 1577 edition: 1 The court was then at Westminster, where he being entred into the hall, not one of his companie durst once aduance himselfe further than the fire in the same hall, notwithstanding they were earnestlie requested by the lords to come higher: but they re|garding what they had in commandement of the prince, would not presume to doo in any thing contra|rie therevnto. He himselfe onelie accompanied with those of the kings house, was streight admitted to the presence of the king his father, who being at that time gréeuouslie diseased, yet caused himselfe in his chaire to be borne into his priuie chamber, where in the presence of thrée or foure persons, in whome he had most confidence,The prince cõmeth to the kings presẽce. he commanded the prince to shew what he had to saie concerning the cause of his comming.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 His words to his father.The prince knéeling downe before his father said:

Most redoubted and souereigne lord and father, I am at this time come to your presence as your liege man, and as your naturall sonne, in all things to be at your commandement. And where I vnderstand you haue in suspicion my demeanour against your grace, you know verie well, that if I knew any man within this realme, of whome you should stand in feare, my duetie were to punish that person, thereby to remooue that greefe from your heart. Then how much more ought I to suffer death, to ease your grace of that gréefe which you haue of me, being your natu|rall sonne and liege man: and to that end I haue this daie made my selfe readie by confession and re|ceiuing of the sacrament. And therefore I beseech you most redoubted lord and deare father, for the ho|nour of God, to ease your heart of all such suspicion as you haue of me, and to dispatch me héere before your knees, with this same dagger [and withall he deliuered vnto the king his dagger, in all humble re|uerence; adding further, that his life was not so deare to him, that he wished to liue one daie with his displeasure] and therefore in thus ridding me out of life, and your selfe from all suspicion, here in presence of these lords, and before God at the daie of the gene|rall iudgement, I faithfullie protest clearlie to for|giue you.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The king mooued herewith,The kings words to the prince his son cast from him the dagger, and imbracing the prince kissed him, and with shedding teares confessed, that in déed he had him partlie in suspicion, though now (as he perceiued) not with iust cause, and therefore from thencefoorth no misreport should cause him to haue him in mistrust, and this he promised of his honour. So by his great wisedome was the wrongfull suspicion which his father had conceiued against him remooued, and he restored to his fauour. And further, E [...]ton. where he could not but gréeuouslie complaine of them that had slan|dered him so greatlie, to the defacing not onelie of his honor, but also putting him in danger of his life,The princes request to haue his accu|sors to answer their wrõgful slanders. he humblie besought the king that they might an|swer their vniust accusation; and in case they were found to haue forged such matters vpon a malicious purpose, that then they might suffer some punish|ment for their faults, though not to the full of that they had deserued. The king séeming to grant his ro|sonable desire, yet told him that he must tarrie a par|lement, that such offendors might be punished by iudgement of their péeres: and so for that time he was dismissed, with great loue and signes of father|lie affection.