Of this the ladie regent began to discerne manie tokens and apparances of good hope: for notwith|standing the king of England immediatlie after the first reapports of the victorie, had not onelie expressed great tokens of gladnesse and reioising, but also pub|lished that he would in person passe into France: and withall had sent ambassadours to the emperour to solicit and treat of the moouing of warre iointlie togither: yet procéeding in deed with more mildnesse than was expected of so furious shewes and tokens, he dispatched a messenger to the ladie regent, to send to him an expresse ambassadour: which accordinglie was accomplished, and that with fulnesse of authori|tie and commission, such as brought with it also all sorts of submissions & implorations which she thought apt to reduce to appeasement the mind of that king so highlie displeased. He reposed himselfe altogither vpon the will and counsell of the cardinall of Yorke,Note how forren chro|niclers could report of car|dinall Wo [...]l|sie. who séemed to restreine the king and his thoughts to this principall end, that bearing such a hand vpon the controuersies and quarrels that ran betwéene o|ther princes; all the world might acknowledge to de|pend vpon him and his authoritie the resolution and expectation of all affaires.

And for this cause he offered to the emperour at the same time to descend into France with a puis|sant armie, both to giue perfection vnto the aliance concluded betwéene them before; and also to remooue all scruple and gelousie, he offered presentlie to con|signe vnto him his daughter, who was not as yet in an age and disposition able for mariage. But in these matters were very great difficulties, partlie depen|ding vpon himselfe, and partlie deriuing from the emperour, who now shewed nothing of that readi|nesse to contract with him which he had vsed before: for the king of England demanded almost all the rewards of the victorie, as Normandie, Guien, and Gascoigne, with the title of king of France. And that the emperour, notwithstanding the inequalitie of the conditions should passe likewise into France, and communicate equallie in the expenses and dangers. The inequalitie of these demands troubled not a little the emperour, to whome they were by so much the more grieuous, by how much he remem|bred that in the yeares next before, he had alwaies deferred to make warre euen in the greatest dan|gers of the French king. So that he persuaded him|selfe that he should not be able to make anie founda|tion vpon that confederation.

And standing in a state no lesse impouerished for monie and treasure,The empe|rours hope to recouer more pro [...] by the French king in [...] than [...] than made wearie with labours and perils, he hoped to draw more commodities from the French king by the meane of peace, than by the violence of armes and warres, speciallie ioi|ning with the king of England. Besides, he made not that accompt which he was woont to doo of the mariage of his daughter, both for hir minoritie in EEBO page image 887 age, and also for the dowrie for the which he should stand accomptable for so much as the emperour had receiued by waie of loane of the king of England: he séemed by manie tokens in nature to nourish a woonderfull desire to haue children, and by the neces|sitie of his condition he was caried with great co|uetousnesse of moni [...]: vpon which two reasons he tooke a great desire to marie the sister of the house of Portugall, which was both in an age able for mari|age, and with whome he hoped to receiue a plentifull portion in gold and treasure, besides the liberalities of his owne people offered by waie of beneuolence in case the mariage went forward: such was their desire to haue a quéene of the same nation and lan|guage, and of hope to procreat children.