[1] But bicause all men and the maiden hirselfe most of all detested and abhorred this vnlawfull, and in maner vnnaturall copulation; he determined to pro|long and defer the matter, till he were in a more quietnesse. For all that verie season he was oppressed wi [...]h great, weightie, and vrgent causes, and busines|ses on euerie side; considering that dailie, part of the nobilitie sailed into France to the earle of Rich|mond: other priuilie fauoured and aided certeine of the coniuration, so that of his short end few or none were in doubt. And the common people (for the most part) were brought to such desperation, that manie of them had rather be reputed and taken of him in the number of his enimies, than to abide the chance and hazard to haue their goods taken as a spoile of victorie, by his enimies. [In such hatred they had the wretch, wishing his hart in their hands with the ha|zard of their heads. For how can people saie well or thinke well of tyrants, whose propertie it is to teare them in peeces with their clawes, like a woolfe let loose among a fold of shéepe? Whereto Homer had an eie when he said in pithie sense as here followeth:

Quisquis inhumanis studet intestabilis vtiHom. Odyss. lib. 19.

Moribus, huic omnes viuo clàm dira precantur:

Huic omnes credunt fas insultare perempto.]