[1] [2] [3] In the meane time,The king en|treth into Wales. the king of England passing ouer the riuer of Conwey, with part of his armie to go further into Wales towards Snowdon, lost ma|nie carts and other cariages which were taken by the Welshmen, being loden with the prouisions of vit|tels, so that he with his people indured great penu|rie, and was constreined to drinke water mixt with honie, and eat such course bread and salt flesh as he could get, till the other part of the armie came vnto him. There was a small quantitie of wine amongst them, Abington. which they would haue reserued onelie for the king, & therfore refused to tast therof. But least they should repine at his extraordinarie and seuerall fare, and so by conceits of discontentment for not ha|uing the like, he considered in a sympathie, that,

Quae mala cum multis patimur, leuiora videntur,

saieng, that in time of necessitie all things ought to be common, and all men to be contented with like diet. For as touching him (being the cause and pro|curer of their want) he would not be preferred before any of them in his meats and drinks. The Welsh|men compassed him about in hope to distresse him, for that the water was so risen, that the residue of his armie could not get to him. But shortlie after, when the water fell, they came ouer to his aid, and there|with the aduersaries fled.