[1] [2] [3] To the messengers (as some write) he gaue none other answer but this,The earle [...] Warwike [...]swer to the duke of C [...]+rence [...]. that he had rather be like him|selfe, than like a false and periured duke; and that he was fullie determined neuer to leaue warre, till he had either lost his owne life, or vtterlie subdued his enimies. As it was thought, the earle of Oxenfords persuasion wanted not, to make him the more stif|lie to hold out; and rather to trie the vttermost hazard of warre, than to agrée to acknowledge king Ed|ward for his lawfull souereigne lord and king. Wher|vpon no appointment nor anie agréement at all could be brought to passe; and so all that treatie, which the duke of Clarence had procured, brake off & tooke none effect. There came to the earle of Warwike, whilest he laie thus at Couentrie (besides the earle of Oxenford) the duke of Excester, and the lord mar|quesse Montacute, by whose comming that side was greatlie strengthened, and the number much increa|sed.