[1] [2] The messengers, being men both of wit and gra|uitie, so persuaded the quéene with great and preg|nant reasons, & what with faire and large promises, that she began somewhat to relent, and to giue to them no deafe eare; insomuch that she faithfullie pro|mised to submit and yéeld hir selfe fullie and franke|lie to the kings will and pleasure. And so she putting in obliuion the murther of hir innocent children, the infamie and dishonour spoken by the king hir hus|band, the liuing in adulterie laid to hir charge, the bastarding of hir daughters; forgetting also the faith|full promise and open oth made to the countesse of Richmond mother to the earle Henrie, blinded by auaricious affection, & seduced by flattering words, first deliuered into king Richards hands hir fiue daughters,The incon|stancie of Q. Elizabeth. as lambs once againe committed to the custodie of the rauenous woolfe.