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THis Epistle of King Iohn to Matilda, is much more poeticall then historicall, making no mention at al of the occurrents of the time, or state, touching onely his loue to her, and the extreamitie of his passions forced by his desires, rightly fa∣shioning the humor of this king, as hath bin truely noted by the
most authnticall Writers; whose nature and disposition is truli∣est discerned in the course of his loue; first iesting at the ceremo∣nies of the seruices of those times, then going about by all strong and probable arguments, to reduce her to pleasures and delights; next with promises of honour, which he thinketh to be last and greatest meane, and to haue greatest power in her sexe, with pro∣mise of calling home of her friends, which he thought might be a great inducement to his desires.