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Title:  The expedicion into Scotla[n]de of the most woorthely fortunate prince Edward, Duke of Soomerset, vncle vnto our most noble souereign lord ye ki[n]ges Maiestie Edvvard the. VI. goouernour of hys hyghnes persone, and protectour of hys graces realmes, dominions [and] subiectes made in the first yere of his Maiesties most prosperous reign, and set out by way of diarie, by W. Patten Londoner.
Author: Patten, William, fl. 1548-1580.
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I may well perchaunce confes that herein we vsed sum sharp∣nes (although not asmuche as we mought) and little curtesie, and yet I can safely avowe, all doon by vs, as rather by sun∣dry respectes dryuen and com∣peld, then eyther of crueltie or of delight in slaughter. And lyke (sumwaye) to the diligent Master that sharpely sumtime (when warnynge will not ser∣ue) dooth beat hys scholler, not hardely for hate of the chylde, or hys oune delyghte in beatynge, but for looue he woolde haue hym amende hys fautes or negligence, and bea∣tes hym ones surely, because he woolde nede to beat hym no more. One cause of the cor∣rection 0