[1] In this meane time, of a small matter, and the [page 765] same altogither false and fained, there was an open path made and beaten foorth, for a greater inconueni|ence to insue. The which matter might séeme verie strange, how such trouble and mischéefe should grow thereof, if the time were not considered, in which it happened. For in those daies manie persons, either borne in the wombe of continuall dissention, or nou|rished with the milke of ciuill sedition, could not for|beare their vsuall custome of moouing strife, and sow|ing debate, euer glad to haue anie occasion, though neuer so small, to stirre vprores of warre, and slaugh|ter of people. Which men if they knew (a matter of weightie conceipt) the hurts thereof, they would be as earnest in seeking after peace as they are grée|die in pursuit of warre, speciallie ciuill warre: but the cause whie they are defectiue therein, is the want of méekenesse and humilitie, as the wiseman saith:

Mite cor horribili seditione vacat.