[1] Although this great enterprise were neuer so pri|uilie handled, and so secretlie amongst so circumspect persons treated, compassed and conueied; yet know|ledge therof came to the eares of king Richard, who with the sudden chance was not a little mooued and astonied. First, bicause he had no host readie prepa|red; secondlie, if he should raise an armie so sudden|lie, he knew not where to méet his enimies, or whi|ther to go, or where to tarrie. Wherefore he determi|ned to dissemble the matter, as though he knew no|thing, till he had assembled his host; and in the meane season either by the rumour of the common people, or by the diligence of his espials to search out all the counsels, [...]. Richards [...]urpose in the [...] of coniu| [...]a [...]ion against [...]. determinations, intents, and compasses of his close aduersaries; or else by policie to inter|cept and take some person of the same coniuration, considering that there is no more secret nor hid es|piall, than that which lurketh in dissimulation of knowledge and intelligence, or is hidden in name and shadow of counterfeit humanitie and feined kindnesse. But yet wisedome hath a deuise to auoid & shift off all such deceiuers, as the poet well saieth:

Dissimulatores vitat prudentia vafros.