[1] Howbeit, if loue and dread of God,An euill [...] to breake the league of peace. nighnesse of blood, honour of the world, law and reason had bound him, it might be supposed, that he would neuer so farre haue procéeded; wherein the pope and all prin|ces christned might well note in him dishonorable de|meanor, which had dissembled the matter, whilest he was at home in his realme; and now in his absence thus went about vpon forged causes to vtter his old rancor, which in couert manner he had long kept se|cret. Neuerthelesse, vpon mistrust of such vnstedfast|nesse, he had put his realme in a readinesse to resist his enterprises, as he doubted not through Gods fa|uour, and the assistance of his confederats, he should be able to resist the malice of all schismatikes, and [page 821] their adherents, being by generall councell expreslie excommunicated & interdicted, trusting in time con|uenient to remember his friends, & requite his foes.