[1] [2] In this parlement king Henrie earnestlie requi|red a subsidie,A subsidie d [...]|manded. Polydor. Matth. Pari [...]. in reliefe of the great charges which he had diuerse waies susteined, wherevpon he was streightwaies by the péeres of the realme noted both of couetousnesse, vnthankfulnesse, and breach of pro|mise, bicause he neuer ceassed gathering of monie, without regard had to his people: and where he had promised manie things, as that he would not be bur|denous vnto them, and such like; he had performed verie little of those his gaie promises. Manie misde|meanors, and wrongfull doings, to the gréeuance of his people were opened and laid before him, as cher|rishing and inriching of strangers,The king charged for his immode|rate inriching of strangers. & vsing his prero|gatiues too largelie, to the great decaie & hinderance of the common-wealth. The king abashed herewith, and supposing that the confession of his fault should make amends, & aswage the displesure which his No|bles and other had conceiued at his misgouernance, to content them all with one answer, he promised that he would reforme all that was amisse, and so quieting the minds of his barons,The parlemẽt proroged. the parlement was proroged till the quindene of the natiuitie of S. Iohn Baptist. Wherein his prudence and wisedome was to be commended, but his patience deserueth ex|ceeding great praise, whereby he shewed himselfe princelike-minded, in that he could tollerate the ex|probration and casting of his faults in his face, euen by such as should rather haue concealed than disclo|sed them: wheras it had stood with his roialtie to haue giuen them the counterchecke, and in angrie mood to haue tamed their malapertnesse: but that he proui|dentlie considered that

—parit ira furorem,

Turpia verba furor, verbis ex turpibus exit

[page 241] Rixa, ex hac oritur [...]ulnus, de vulnere lethum:

—patientia virtus,

Qua quicúnq, caret, careat probitate necesse est.

Qui nil ferre p [...]test, hominum commercia vitet.