[1] The king, when his mother had said,The kings answer to his mother. made hir an|swer, part in earnest, part in plaie merilie, as he that wist himselfe out of hir rule. And albeit he would gladlie that she should take it well, yet was at a point in his owne mind, tooke she it well or otherwise. Howbeit somewhat to satisfie hir, he said, that albeit mariage (being a spirituall thing) ought rather to be made for the respect of God, where his grace incli|neth the parties to loue togither, as he trusted it was in his, than for the regard of anie temporall aduan|uantage: yet neuerthelesse, him séemed that this ma|riage, euen worldlie considered, was not vnprofita|ble. For he reckoned the amitie of no earthlie nation so necessarie for him, as the fréendship of his owne, which he thought likely to beare him so much the more hartie fauour, in that he disdeined not to marie with one of his owne land.