[1] And albeit that all the time of his reigne he was with his people, so benigne, courteous, and so fami|liar, that no part of his vertues was more estéemed: yet the condition in the end of his daies (in which ma|nie princes by a long continued souereigntie decline into a proud port from debonair behauior of their be|ginning) maruellouslie in him grew and increased: so farre foorth, that in summer (the last that euer hée saw) his highnes being at Windsor in hunting,Sée before pag. 705. sent for the maior & aldermen of London to him for none other errand, but to haue them hunt & be merrie with him, where he made them not so statelie, but so fréendlie and familiar cheere, and sent venison from thence so freelie into the citie, that no one thing in manie daies before gat him either more hearts, or more heartie fauour amongest the common people; which oftentimes more estéeme and take for greater kindnesse a little courtesie, than a great benefit.