[1] Thus haue ye heard what writers doo report touch|ing the state of the time and doings of this king. But if I may boldlie saie what I thinke: he was a prince the most vnthankfullie vsed of his subiects, of any one of whom ye shall lightlie read. For although (tho|rough the frailtie of youth) he demeaned himselfe more dissolutelie than séemed conuenient for his roi|all estate, & made choise of such councellors as were not fauoured of the people, whereby he was the lesse fauoured himselfe: yet in n [...] kings daies were the commons in greater wealth, if they could haue per|ceiued their happie state: neither in any other time were the nobles and gentlemen more cherished, nor churchmen lesse wronged. But such was their ingra|titude towards their bountifull & louing souereigne, that those whom he had chéeflie aduanced, were rea|diest to controll him; for that they might not rule all things at their will, and remooue from him such as they misliked, and place in their roomes whom they thought good, and that rather by strong hand, than by gentle and courteous meanes, which stirred such ma|lice betwixt him and them, till at length it could not be asswaged without perill of destruction to them both.