Then the eight men dansed with the eight ladies all being visarded, and suddenlie the men cast off their large gownes, and then their vnder apparell was séene. And when all was doone, euerie lord and ladie put off their visards, and then it was knowne that the king, the duke of Suffolke, and the French quéene were there, which were present at the plaie time. On the eight daie of March was a solemne iu|stes,A iustes. the king himselfe, and eight yoong gentlemen based and barded in blacke veluet embrodered with gold; against the duke of Suffolke, and eight of his band, all in white satten with drops of gold. And that daie they all ran excéeding well, which the strangers highlie commended.]
Compare 1577 edition: 1 About the end of March, the king sent for all the yeomen of the gard that were come from Tornaie,The [...] of [...] rewarde [...]. and after manie good words giuen to them, he gran|ted to euerie of them foure pence the daie without attendance, except they were speciallie commanded. Abr. Fl. ex [...] ¶ And here it seemeth requisit to adde the report of a forreine chronicler touching the league of amitie and conditions of the same, knit vp in breuitie and good tearmes as followeth. Now (saith he) the differences betwéene the French and English were also recon|ciled. And for the more stabilitie of which agreement, it was confirmed with a contract of parentage and aliance, wherein the king of England promised to giue his onelie daughter, to whome hauing no sons, there was hope of the descending & succession of the kingdome to the Dolphin the eldest sonne of the crowne of France,The porti [...] giuẽ with [...] kings daugh|ter of Eng|land. adding for a portion foure hun|dred thousand duckets. Both the one and the other bore yet so tender age, that infinit accidents might happen, before perfection of yeeres would make them able to establish matrimonie. There was made betwene them a league defensiue, wherin were com|prehended Cesar, and the king of Spaine, in case they would ratifie it in a certeine time.
The king of England bound himselfe to restore Tornaie, receiuing presentlie for defraiments ex|pended vpon that towne, two hundred and threescore thousand duckets, and thrée hundred thousand to bée defalked of the portion, and to paie thrée hundred thou|sand more in the space of twelue yeares. The French king also was bound, that if the peace and the paren|tage folowed not, to render vp againe into the hands of the English, the towne of Tornaie. Manie am|bassadours were sent from both the realmes to ne|gociat this league, and to receiue the ratifications and othes, by whome in the courts of both the kings the acts of the accord were dispatched with great so|lemnitie and ceremonie, with a resolution of an in|teruiew of both the kings betwéene Calis and Bul|longne, immediatlie after the restitution of Tor|naie.