[1] The king vnderstanding into what hatred of his people by this meanes he was fallen, and therfo [...]e de|s [...]rous to auoid ciuill dissention and war that might thereby insue, he left off his [...] practise: so that the thing which generallie should haue touched and béene hurtfull to all men, was now suddenlie staied by the manhood and couragious stoutnesse onelie of one man, the foresaid earle, who in his rare act of de|fending cõmon equitie against the mightie in autho|ritie (who spared not to offer extreme iniurie) shewed himselfe a verie true and naturall branch of nobilitie,

—cupit quae grandia semper,

Vilia contemnit, quae sursum tendere vt ignis

Nititur, & summas penetrat velut ardea [...]ibes.