The chief conspyrde by death to dryve hym downe, For which exployte, a solempne. 1559, 63. Which to performe a solempne. 1578. [445] My lyberty and. 1559, 63. My sceptre and my. 1578. [446] No festred sore. 1578. [447] But salues help seeld an over long suffred sore, To stopp the brech no boote to runne or rowne, When swellyng fluds have overflowen the town: Tyll sayles be spred the shyp may kepe the shore, The ankers wayed, though all the frayt do frowne, With streame and steere perforce it shal be bore. 1559, 63. Then winde and streame hath set the seas in rore. 1578. [448] In such state. 1578. [449] They soone depriued. N. [450] Easely put me downe of late. 1559, 63. [451] And where with ease my pride they did abate, They were to weake to set me vp agayne. 1578. [452] By. 1578. [453] In. 1559. [454] And well meant meanes his mishaps. 1559, 63. [455] In me appereth playne. 1559, 63. [456] For when kyng Henry knew. 1559, 63. [457] According to Fabian there was “made prouysyon for a dysguysynge or a mummynge, to be shewyd to the kynge vpon twelfethe nyght:” but Hall describes the plot for the assassination as intended to have been effected during the holding solemn justs at Oxford, and gives a curious and perspicuous account of the preparations made for exhibiting noble acts of chivalry. [458] Hym yf they myght. 1559, 63. Would murder him by night. 1578. [459] Cutthroate. 1578. [460] But sent syr Pierce of Exton, a traytrous knyght, To Pomfret castell, with other, armed lyght. 1559, 63. [461] Sent with great dispite, Who reft my lyfe by force against al lawes. 1578. [462] In flaterie’s clawes, and shame’s foule pawes shall lyght. 1559, 63. And so I end concluding with this clause; That God though late at last wil surely smyte. 1578. [463] George Ferrers, the initials added. 1571. [464] When maister Ferrers had. 1578. [465] Whan master Chaloner had ended thys so eloquent a tragedy. Fol. See n. 1, p. 53. [466] Right notable and wurthy. Fol. [467] ‘We paused,’ is transposed to end of sentence, after ‘piteous tragedies, we paused awhile. And seeing.’ 1578. [468] A prince. 1578. [469] Ware. 1571, 78. [470] Princes. Fol. [471] Owen Glendour, a great prince in Wales, next in succession of ill fortune with the stout Percies, his confederates, I thought it not meete to ouerpasse so great persons with silence, and therefore. 1578. [472] ‘The,’ omitted. Fol. [473] Howbeit Owen Glendour because he is a man of that countrey whence (as the Welchmen beare me in hand) my petigre is discended, althoughe he be but a slender prince, yet rather then he should be forgotten, I wyll tell his tale for him vnder the priuilege of Martin Hundred: which Owen coming naked out of the wilde mountaynes, like the image of death in all poyntes (his dart onely excepted) so sore hath famine and hunger consumed him, lamenteth his infortune after this maner. Fol.