FOOTNOTES:
[1] To the. ed. 1559, 63.
[2] Many other of. 1559, 63.
[3] Heedy. 1559, 63.
[4] That there. 1559, 63.
[5] Officers. 1559, 63. Magistrates. 1575.
[6] Other places to shift of, and put by those that with flattery. 1559, 63.
[7] Offices. 1559, 63.
[8] To prank vp themselues. 1559, 63.
[9] Duties, and they wil geue more. 1559, 63.
[10] To bye them. 1559, 63.
[11] Seke only their commodity and ease. 1559, 63.
[12] Officers. 1559, 63.
[13] Officers. 1559, 63.
[14] When noughtye men had the regiment. 1559, 63.
[15] Our owne countrey. 1559, 63.
[16] ‘Folowing,’ not in editions 1559, 63.
[17] Deserued praises. 1559, 63, 75.
[18] Offices. 1559, 63. Officers, 1575.
[19] Scripture therfore calleth hypocrites, 1559, 63.
[20] Words within the parenthesis added 1571.
[21] A Mirrour for Magistrates can shewe, which therefore I humbly. 1559, 63, 75.
[22] As in a loking glass. 1559. 63.
[23] Vice be in you. 1559, 63.
[24] Moue to the. 1559, 63.
[25] Chiefest ende whye it is. 1559, 63.
[26] God graunt it may attaine. 1559, 63, 75.
[27] But hyndred by the lorde chauncellor that then was. 1563.—Stephen Gardiner, bishop of Winchester, made chancellor, 21 Sept. 1553, died Nov. 1555, and was succeeded as chancellor, by Heath, archbishop of York, Wednesday, 1st January, 1555.
[28] Of my lord Stafford. 1563.
[29] Although I haue bene called to another trade of lyfe, yet my good lorde Stafford. 1563.
[30] Another parte, conteynyng as lytle of myne owne, as the fyrst part doth of other men’s. Which, &c. 1563.
[31] The wurke was begun, and part of it printed IIII years agoe, but hyndred by the lord chauncellour that then was, nevertheles, through the meanes of my lord Stafford, lately perused and licensed. Whan I first tooke it in hand, I had the help of many graunted and offred of sum, but of few perfourmed, skarce of any. So that when I entended to haue continued it to quene Marie’s time, I haue ben faine to end it much sooner: yet so, that it may stande for a patarne till the rest be ready: which, with God’s grace, (if I may have anye helpe) shall be shortly. In &c. 1559.
[32] Myrrour. 1559, 63.
[33] Enuyed and murdered. 1559, 63.
[34] Punish sinne boldly, bothe, &c. 1559. Suppres sinne, 1563.
[35] Lieutenauntes. 1559.
[36] Covet. 1559, 63.
[37] From edition, 1578.
[38] Lidgate’s booke of the fall. 1559, 63, 71.
[39] Hauinge made priuy thereto. 1578.
[40] Had abused here. 1578.
[41] For al men as well nobles as others to shewe. 1559, 63, 71.
[42] To enterprise, I refused vtterly alone to vndertake it, without the helpe. 1578.
[43] Able to wield and discharge the weight of sutch a burden, thinkinge. 1578.
[44] Diligent in hys affayres, procure me an Athlas to laye the burden vppon my shoulders which I would not haue undertaken, but that shortly after. 1578.
[45] In the first edition there only appears the productions of Cavil, Churchyard, Ferrers, Phaer, Skelton and Baldwin.
[46] An. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
[47] Wee did not mislyke. 1578.
[48] Cumlily. 1559; cumly. 1563.
[49] I maruayle, quod hee, what. 1578.
[50] Our nation, 1559, 63, 71, 78.
[51] Some also in the time of Bochas himselfe. 1578.
[52] Added in ed. 1571.
[53] Eyther by malice or misaduenture slaine in the new forest, as he was in hunting there, by. 1575. Eyther by malice or misaduenture slayne hunting in the new forest by. 1578.
[54] England, by Henry, &c. 1578.
[55] And after, myserably. 1578.
[56] Likewise, not in 1578.
[57] Henry the first, called Beauclerke, drowned vpon the sea by the negligence of drunken mariners. 1578.
[58] The passage in brackets added in ed. 1571.
[59] Prosperity. The most vnnaturall murther of Artur, duke of Britayne, right heyre of Englande, by king Ihon his vncle, with the death of Isabell, his sister, by famyne. The myserable ende of the sayd king Ihon their vncle, by surfet, or as some write, poysoned by a monke of the abby of Swinsted in Lyncolneshyre, are, &c. 1578.
[60] Wanted our countrey cronicles. 1559, 63.
[61] And a notable. 1559, 63.
[62] Supply. 1578.
[63] As blinde bayard is alway boldest. 1559, 63.
[64] Reigne. 1578.
[65] A time as troublesome to the people as vnlucky to the prince 1578.
[66] Lewd meiney. 1576.
[67] And. 1559, 63.
[68] Although he be no great prynce: yet, &c. 1559, 63.
[69] And of other his fellowes learned in the law that were plagued with him: thereby to warne all of theyr callinge and profession, to beware of wrong judgementes. 1578.
[70] This preface is reprinted by Warton, as he says it cannot easily be found. History of English Poetry, Vol. III. p. 217.
[71] In the present edition the original arrangement is preserved.
[72] Anno 1388, added 1571.
[73] Sad. N.
[74] When as we. N.
[75] The lande. 1578.
[76] Vncorrupt and vpright, 1559, 63.
[77] Prynt it for a president. 1559, 63.
[78] Where judges. 1578.
[79] What fee is for falshoode. 1559, 63.
[80] Princes will. N.
[81] Who for filthy lucre, corrupt. 1578.
[82] Gainst justice wretchedly. N.
A chaunge more newe or straunge seldome hath be seen,
Then from the benche above to cum downe to the bar;
Was never state so turned in no time as I ween,
As they to become clyents that counsaylours erst were:
But such is fortune’s play, which featly can prefer
The judge that sat above, full lowe beneth to stand,
At the bar as prysoner holding vp his hand. 1559, 63.
[84] Whiche in other’s cause, coulde. 1559, 63.
[85] Lyke. 1559, 63.
[86] As mummers mute do stand N.
[87] Vnable to vtter a true plea of denyall. 1559, 63.
[88] When that. 1559.
[89] For halfe a ryall. 1559, 63.
[90] We could by very arte haue made the black. 1559, 63.
[91] And matters of most wrong, to haue appered most right. 1559, 63.
[92] Most wise, may chance be too too weake. N.
[93] But may be brought to stand. 1578.
[94] Stanzas 5 and 6 added 1571.
[95] Behold me one vnfortunate amongst this flocke. N.
[96] Cal’d sometime. N.
[97] By discent a gentleman. 1559, 63.
[98] ‘And’ omitted. N.
[99] State. N.
[100] To whom frowarde fortune gaue a foule checkmate. 1559, 63.
[101] In all our common. N.
[102] What so wee. 1559, 63.
[103] We did conclude. N.
[104] Both life, death, lands, and goods. N.
[105] So great gaine we did get. 1559, 63.
[106] And sises. 1578. N.
[107] Still chiefe. N.
[108] We let hang the true man. 1559, 63.
[109] Doth neuer keepe. 1559, 63.
[110] Whiche though it haue enough yet dothe it not suffyse. 1559, 63. And more at no time doth suffise. 1578.
[111] And drinke they neuer so much, yet styl for more they cry. 1559, 63.
[112] So couetous catchers toyle. 1559, 63.
[113] Gredy and euer needy, prollyng. 1559, 63.
[114] Fayth we did professe. 1578.
[115] Makyng a solempne oth in no poynt to dygresse. 1578.
[116] Wretches. 1559, 63.
Of the judge eternall, more high to be promoted,
To mammon more then God, all wholly were deuoted. 1578.
[118] We interpreted. 1559, 63.
[119] Like a. 1559, 63.
[120] Many one. 1559, 63.
[121] To serue kings in al pointes men must sumwhile breke rules. 1559, 63.
[122] Ful nie. 1559, 63.
[123] To crepe into whose fauour we. 1559, 63.
[124] Auayle. 1578.
[125] Wurde. 1559, 63. Sense. 1578.
[126] Sence, 1559, 63.
[127] Of land. N.
[128] Wyll. 1578.
The king thus transcendyng the limittes of his lawe,
Not raygning but raging by youthfull insolence,
Wise and wurthy persons did fro the courte wythdraw,
There was no grace ne place for auncient prudence:
Presumpcion and pryde with excesse of expence,
Possessed the palays and pillage the countrye;
Thus all went to wracke vnlike of remedye. 1559, 63.
[130] Baronye. 1559, 63.
[131] Seing no reason. 1578.
[132] Maugre all. 1559.
[133] Maugre his princely mynde they. 1578. His kingly might. N.
[134] All men vnchecked. 1578.
[135] Which. 1578.
[136] Regally. 1571, 78.
[137] That Richard. 1578.
[138] Order. 1578.
In whyche parliament muche thynges was proponed
Concerning the regaly and ryghtes of the crowne,
By reason kyng Richarde, whiche was to be moned,
Full lytell regardynge his honour and renowne,
By synister aduyse, had tourned all vpsodowne:
For suerty of whose estate,[143] them thought it did behooue
His corrupt counsaylours, from hym to remooue. 1559, 1563.
[140] In the beginning of the parliament was called Robert Veer, duke of Irelande, Alexander Neuell, archebishop of Yorke, Mighell de la Poole, erle of Suffolk, sir Robert Tresilian, chiefe iustice of Englande, to answere Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester, Richard, erle of Arondel, Thomas, erle of Derby, and Thomas erle of Nottyngham, vpon certaine articles of high treason, which these lordes did charge them with. And for as much as none of these appered, it was ordeyned by the whole assent of the parliament that they shoulde be banished for euer: and their landes and goodes, moueable and vnmouable, to be forfeit and seased into the kinge’s hand, the landes entayled onely except.
Shortly after this, was founde Robert Tresilian, chiefe iustice, lurkyng in a poticarie’s house at Westmynster, and there founde the meanes to have spyes daylie vpon the lordes what was done in the parliament: for all the dayes of his lyfe he was craftie, but at the last his craft turned to hys destruction: for he was discouered by his owne seruant, and so taken and brought to the duke of Gloucester, and the same daye had to the Towre, and from thence drawen to Tyborne, and there hanged.
The morow after, syr Nicholas Pembroke, which afore had been maior of the citie of London, against the citezen’s will, was brought foorth. Grafton.
This man (Tresilian) had disfigured himselfe, as if he had beene a poore weake man, in a frize coat, all old and torne, and had artificially made himselfe a long beard, such as they called a Paris beard, and had defiled his face, to the end he might not be knowen but by his speach. Stowe.
[141] Tharchbyshop of Yorke was also of our band, 1578.
[142] See Statutes at large, temp. Rich. II. viz. 11. c. I. II. III. 20. c. VI. and 31. c. XII. XIII.
[143] State, 1559.
[144] Judge. 1578.
[145] To dye there as. 1578.
[146] The fickle fee of fraud. 1578.
[147] Ye iudges now liuing. 1578.
[148] Fye on stynkyng lucre, of all vnryght the lure, Ye judges and ye justicers let my most iust punicion. 1559, 63.
[149] Al pure. 1578. Still pure. N.
[150] What glory is more greater in sight of God. 1578.
[151] By the pathes of equytie. 1559, 63.
[152] And truely. 1578.
[153] Alwayes. 1559, 63.
[154] Lawes for to scan. N.
[155] Reward. 1559, 63. That justice may take place without reward. 1578.
[156] Take. 1559, 63.
[157] The righteous. 1578. The most iust. N.
[158] Of mortals displeasure. N.
[159] Closde. 1578.
[160] Worldly hyre. 1559, 63. Way not this worldly mucke. 1578.
If som in latter dayes, had called vnto mynde,
The fatall fall of vs for wrestynge of the right,
The statutes of this land they should not haue defynde
So wylfully and wittingly agaynst the sentence quyte:
But though thei skaped paine, the faut was nothing light,
Let them that cum hereafter both that and this compare,
And waying well the ende, they will I trust beware. 1559, 63.
[162] George Ferrers. These initials first added, 1571.
[163] This. 1559, 63. 71.
[164] When finished was this tragedy. 1578.
[165] Syr Roger Mortimer, earle of March, and heyre apparaunt of England, whose. 1578.
[166] Purposed matter. 1578.
[167] Of these great infortunes, and as they be more auncient in tyme, so to place their seuerall plaintes. 1578.
[168] Two earles of the name of Mortimer. 1578.
[169] One hanged in. 1559, 63.
[170] In the tyme of king Edward. 1578.
[171] Another in Richard the seconde’s time, slayne in Ireland. 1578.
[172] Fauours. 1578.
[173] Personage of the earle Mortimer, called Roger, who full of bloudye woundes. 1578.
[174] To Baldwin, in this wise. 1578.
[175] The dates added 1571—Fabian has given a summary of the life of the second Roger Mortimer, and upon which the poet relied, as of 1387, but the death of Mortimer happened about 1398.
[176] On. 1578.
[177] Thred, vntimely death dyd reele. 1578.
[178] Brought from boote to extreme bale. 1578.
——the queene so much was stir’d,
As for his sake from honour she did scale. 1578.
[180] Merye gale. 1559, 63.
And whilest fortune blew on this pleasaunt gale,
Heauing him high on her triumphall arch,
By meane of her hee was made earle of March. 1578.
[182] Breded. 1559, 63.
[183] Pride folly breeds in. N.
[184] Hym, 1559, 63.
[185] For where he somwhat hauty was before. 1559, 63.
Whence pryde out sprang, as doth appeare by manye,
Whom soden hap, aduaunceth in excesse,
Among thousandes, scarse shal you fynde anye,
Which in high wealth that humor can suppresse,
As in this earle playne proofe did wel expresse:
For whereas hee too loftye was before,
His new degree hath made him now much more. 1578.
[187] Ne recks. N.
[188] Respecting none saue only the queene mother. 1578.
[189] Which moued malice to foulder. 1578.
[190] Which deepe in hate, before. 1578.
[191] Th’one as well as th’other. N.
[192] They did the earle attaynt. 1578. He was soone attaint. N.
[193] Such crimes as hidden lay before. 1578.
[194] For hydden hate. 1578. For enuy still. N.
[195] Biddes small faultes to make more bad. 1578.
Causing the king to yelde vnto the Scot,
Townes that his father, but late afore had got. 1578.
[197] Had, wanting, in 1559, 63. N.
[198] Yeuen to the Scots for brybes and priuie gayne. 1578.
[199] That by. 1578.
[200] Most, wanting. 1559, 63, 71. N. Most cruelly. 1578.
[201] And last of all by pyllage. 1578.
[202] Had spoyld. 1578.
[203] Dampned he was. 1578.
[204] Syr Roger Mortymer was accused before the lordys of the parlyament of these artycles with other; whereof v. I fynde expressyd. And firste was layed vnto his charge that by his meaneys syr Edwarde of Carnaruan, by mooste tyrannouse deth, in the castell of Barkley, was murderyd; secondaryly, that to the kynge’s great dyshonoure and dammage, the Scottys, by his meanys and treason, escapyd from the kyng at the parke on Stanhope, whiche then shuld haue fallen in the kynge’s daunger, ne had been the fauoure by the sayde Roger to them than shewyd; thyrdely, to hym was layed, that he, for execucion of the sayd treason, receyued of the capytane of the sayd Scottis, namyd syr Iamys Dowglas, great summys of money, and also for lyke mede he had, to the kynge’s great dyshonoure and hurte of his realme, concludyd a peace atwene the kynge and the Scottis, and causyd to be delyuered vnto theym the charter or endenture called Ragman, with many other thynges, to the Scottys great aduauntage and impouerysshynge of this realme of Englande. Fourtlye, was layed to hym, that where by synystre and vnlefull meanys, contrary the kynge’s pleasure and wyll, or assent of the lordys of the kynge’s counceyll, he had gotten into his possessyon moche of the kynge’s treasoure, he vnskylfully wasted and myspent it; by reason whereof the kyng was in necessyte, and dryuen parforce to assaye his frendys. Fyfthlye, that he also had enproperyd vnto hym dyuerse wardys belongynge to the kynge, to his great lucre and the kynge’s great hurt, and that he was more secret with quene Isabell, the kynge’s mother, than was to Godde’s pleasure, or the kynge’s honoure: the whiche artycles, with other agayne hym prouyd, he was, by auctoryte of the sayde parlyament, iugyd to deth, and vpon seynt Andrewys euyn next ensuynge, at London, he was drawyn and hangyd. Fabyan.
[205] My coosins fall might. 1578. My cosin then might. N.
[206] Brybing, adultery and pride. 1578.
[207] I wene. 1578.
[208] ‘Deare,’ omitted. N.
[209] That dyd, 1559.
——heire of Lyonell,
Of king Edward the third the second sequell. 1578.
The third king Edward’s sonne, as stories tell. N.
[211] Cald. 1578.
[212] By true. 1578.
[213] Of ladies all the. 1578.
[214] Left in me. 1559, 63.
After whose death I onely stood in plight,
To be next heyre vnto the crowne by right. 1578.
[216] Of the. N.
Touching the case of my cousin Roger,
(Whose ruful end euen now I did relate)
Was found in tyme an vndue atteindre. 1578.
[218] By lawe eche man of. 1578. By law each one of. N.
Should be heard speake before his iudgement passe,
That common grace to him denyed was. 1578.
[220] In court of. 1578.
[221] His atteindre appering erroneous. 1578.
A president worthy, in record left,
Lorde’s lygnes to saue, by lawless meanes bereft. 1578.
[223] While fortune vnto me her grace did deigne. N.
[224] The. 1559, 63.
[225] Looser. N.
Whyle fortune thus did frendly me receyue,
Rychard the king, that second was by name,
Hauing none heire after him to reigne. 1578.
[227] That vnderstoode my bent. 1578.
And me to serue was euery manne’s entent,
With all that wyt or cunning could inuent. 1578.
[229] In hope. 1578.
[230] Chaunge their hue. 1578.
[231] For whiles fortune so luld. 1578.
[232] Dame. 1578.
[233] To dash me downe. 1578.
[234] Irish kernes. 1578.
My landes of Vlster vniustly to bereaue,
Which my mother for heritage did me leaue. 1578.
[236] Whom I did not regard. N.
The wylder sort, whom I did least regard,
And therfore the rechlesse manne’s reward. 1578.
[238] By auctoryte of the same parliament [in 1585-6] syr Roger Mortymer, erle of the Marche, and sone and heyre vnto syr Edmunde Mortymer, (and of dame Phylyp, eldest daughter and heyer vnto syr Lyonell, the seconde sone of Edwarde the thyrde) was soone after proclaymyd heyer paraunt vnto the crowne of Englande; the which syr Roger shortly after sayled into Irelande; there to pacyfye his lordeshyp of Wulstyr, whiche he was lorde of by his foresayde mother: but whyle he was there occupyed abowte the same, the wylde Irysshe came vpon in noumbre, and slewe hym and moche of his company, Fabyan.
[239] Nor helpe of frendes. 1578.
[240] Or. 1578.
[241] No law of armes they know. 1578.
[242] No foes. N.
[243] Their booty chiefe, they coumpt a dead man’s heade. 1578.
Their chiefest boote is th’aduersarie’s head,
They end not warre till th’enemie be dead. N.
[245] Their foes when they doe faine. N.
Nor yet presume to make their match amisse,
Had I not so done, I had not come to this. 1578.
——I had been left aliue. N.
At naught I set a sort of naked men,
And much the lesse, seeming to flye away,
One man me thought was good ynough for ten,
Making small account of number more or lesse,
Madnesse it is in war to goo by gesse. 1578.
See here the stay of pompe and highe estate,
The feeble hold of this vncerteyn lyfe. 1578.
[249] Hauing fayre fruict by my belooued wyfe. 1578. Syr Roger had issu Edmunde, and Roger, Anne, Alys, and Elanoure. Fabyan.
[250] Cavil. The “Ca.” was first affixed in 1571, and is repeated in all the subsequent editions, except that of 1578, where there appears “T. Ch.” the supposed signature of Thomas Churchyard. As from that edition we shall have to notice, presently, another similar alteration, it makes it doubtful whether the same can be considered a misprint, though it does not appear in the enumeration of his own pieces made by Churchyard. See Bibliographia Poetica. Since this note was printed the claim of ‘Master Chaloner’ to this signature has been discovered. See postea, p. 53, n. 1.
[251] Was, omitted. 1578.
[252] Not to be treated of, 1559, 63.
[253] In the seuententh yere (1394) came oute of Scotlonde certayne lordes into Englonde, to gete worshypp by fayte of armes. The earl of Morris chalenged the erle marchall of Englonde to juste wyth hym on horsbacke wyth sharpe speres. And soo they roode togyder certayne courses, but not the full chalenge. For the Scottyshe erle was caste bothe horse and man, and two of his rybbes broken wyth the same fall, and soo borne home into his inne. And anone after was caryed homeward in a lytier. And at Yorke he deyed. Syre Wyllyam Darell banerer of Scotlonde, and syre Pyers Courteney the kynge’s banerer of Englonde roode togyder certayne courses of warre hitte and assayed. The Scottisshe knyghte seenge that he myghte not haue the better, yaue it ouer: and wold noo more of the chalenge. Thenne one Cokburne, squyer of Scotlond, and syre Nicholl Hauberk, roode fyue courses, and at euery course the Scot was caste bothe horse and man. Polychronicon.
[254] And whan thys ryall maryage was done and fynysshed kynge Rycharde wyth dame Isabel his quene came into Englonde. And the mayre of London, with all his brethren, wyth grete multytude of the comyns of the cyte and the craftes, receyuyd hym worshypfully at Blackheth, and brought hym to Saynt Georges barre. And there taking their leue, the kyng and quene roode to Kenignton. And after that wythin a whyle the quene came to the toure of London, at whose comyng was moche harme doo, for on London bridge were ix persones thrust to deth, of whom the priour of typre was one. Polychronicon. The prior of Tiptor, in Essex, was one. Stowe.
[255] Muche myndyng, 1559, 63.
[256] Date, added. 1571.
[257] Is stablysht. 1559, 63. Who stablisht is in state, seeming. 1578.
[258] Turne thine eare to. 1578.
[259] Prest in presence on fortune to. 1578.
[260] Of the. 1559, 63.
[261] Who by discent was of the. 1578.
[262] Nought. N.
[263] Before, eyther since. 1559. Or since. N.
[264] Most false fayth. 1578.
[265] Marcht. N.
[266] Thus hoysted high on fortune’s whyrling wheele. 1578.
[267] For whan fortune’s flud ran with. 1559, 63.
[268] I beynge a duke discended of kinges. 1559, 63.
[269] In. 1559, 63.
[270] Esperaunce. 1559, 63, 71. Assurance. 1578.
[271] All, omitted. N.
[272] To appoynt. 1559, 63.
[273] And for to settle others in their place. N.
[274] So, omitted. N.
[275] On a bell. N.
[276] Or. 1559, 63.
[277] Haply, omitted. N.
[278] For doyng on. 1559, 63. On, omitted. N.
[279] A sore checke. 1559, 63. I vnaduised caught a cruell checke. N.
[280] Renown’d. N.
[281] For the tale of the rats, whence originates the proverbial observation, “Who shall bell the cat?” see the vision of Pierce the Plowman, by Crowley, ed. 1550, fol. iii. by Dr. Whitaker, 1813, p. 9.
[282] Expound. N.
[283] To curb. N.
[284] ’Bout. N.
[285] T’obay. N.
[286] It fits not a subiect t’haue. N.
[287] Thys by wurde. 1559, 63.
[288] And, omitted. N.
[289] Erle. 1559, 63.
[290] We by our power did call a parlament. N.
[291] With our. N.
[292] Playnely we depriued him of. 1559, 63.
[293] T’vnderstand. N.
[294] Thus wrought. 1578.
[295] By subiectes thus in bondage to bee brought. 1578.
[296] His. 1559, 63.
[297] Former cause of rancour to. 1578.
[298] Accoumpt. 1578.
[299] Were by me. 1559, 63.
[300] In the twentyest yere kynge Rycharde dide holde a grete feeste at Westmestre. Att whyche feest aryued the souldyours that hadde kepte Breste, and satte att dyner in the halle. And after dyner the duke of Glocestre sayd to the kynge: “Syre, haue ye not seen those fellowes that sate at dyner in your halle.” And the kinge demaunded who they were. And he sayde: “Thyse ben your folke that haue serued you, and ben come from Breste. And now wote not what to doo, and haue ben euyl payed.” Thenne the kynge sayde that they sholde be payed. Thenne answered the duke of Gloucetre in a grete furye: “Syre, ye oughte fyrste to put your body in deuoyre to gete a towne, or a castell by fayte of warre vpon youre enmyes, er ye sholde selle or delyuer ony townes that your predecessours, kynges of Englonde, haue goten and conquered.” To the whyche the kynge answerde ryght angrely: “How saye ye that?” Thenne the duke his vncle sayd it agayne. Thenne the kynge beganne to wexe wrothe, and sayd: “Wene ye that I be a marchaunte or a foole to sell my londe. By saynt Iohnne Baptyst naye: but trouthe it is that our cosyn of Brytayne hath rendred and payd to vs the somme that my predecessours had lent vppon the sayd towne of Breste, and syth he hath payd, it is reason that this towne be delyuered to hym agayne.” Thus beganne the wrath bitwene the kynge and his vncle. Polychronicon.
[301] To claime entertainment the town beyng solde. 1559, 63. To clayme their wages. 1578.
Of hate in hys hert hourded a tresure. 1559, 63.
Fulfyld his hart with hate. 1578.
[303] Nor. 1559, 63.
[304] But frendship fayned, in proofe is found vnsure. 1578.
[305] With long sicknesse diseased very sore. 1578.
[306] I was confedered before. 1578.
[307] Such aduauntage. 1578.
[308] Eame. This word is used repeatedly in the legends by Ferrers. In the above passage it means uncle. It was also a term for a gossip, compeer, or friend.
[309] To goe before. 1578.
[310] Preparedst a playne waye. 1578.
[311] What measure to others we awarde. 1578.
[312] The initials of George Ferrers, first added, 1571.
[313] This. 1559, 63, 71.
[314] Tragedy of the Lord Mowbray, the chief wurker of the duke’s distruction, 1559, 63.
[315] To the state of a duke, added. 1571.
[316] Lykely. 1559, 63.
[317] Marke, I will shew thee how I swerued. 1559, 63.
[318] A vertuous mynde. 1559, 63.
[319] The herte to evyll to enclyne. 1559, 63.
[320] Kynde. 1559, 63.
[321] I thanke her, was to me so kynde. 1559, 63.
[322] Neyther of vs was muche to other holde. 1559, 63.
[323] Misprinted ‘thought’ by Higgins and Niccols.
[324] Wrong’d. N.
[325] Of England. 1578.
[326] Bad officers. N.
[327] Afore had. N.
[328] Aye seeks. N.
[329] The kinge’s fauour. 1578.
[330] Pryde prouoketh to. 1578.
[331] To poll and oppresse. 1578.
[332] And still. N.
[333] Him to. N.
[334] For pryde prickt me first my prince to flatter. 1578.
[335] Who so euer. 1578.
[336] Nere. N.
[337] Because of holdes beyond the sea that he solde. 1578.
[338] My. 1559, 63.
[339] Though vnto all these ils I were a frend. N.
[340] The duke of Gloucester for me did send. N.
[341] From place. 1578.
[342] Bewrayed the king. 1559, 63, 71, 78.
[343] At Arundell was a counseylle of certayne lordes: as the duke of Gloucetre, tharchebysshop of Caunterbury, the erles of Arundeel, Warwyck, and Marchall, and other, for to refourme the rule abowte the kynge. Whyche lordes promysed eche to abyde by other and soo departed. And anone after the erle Marchall, whiche was captayne of Calays, bewrayed and lete the kyng haue knowleche of all theyr counseylle: wherupon the XXV daye of August, the duke of Glocetre was arested at Plassheye in Estsex, and brought to the toure of London. And from thence sent to Caleys and there murthred and slayne wyth out processe of lawe or justyce. Polychronicon.
[344] Earle. 1559, 63.
[345] It out. 1559, 63, 71.
[346] The palme represse. N.
[347] Earle. 1559, 63.
[348] Earle. 1559, 63.
[349] Manteyneth. 1559, 63.
[350] An. N.
[351] Earle. 1559, 63.
[352] Warly. 1559, 63.
[353] Misprinted, brest. 1587.
[354] In the same yere (1398) fel a great debate and dyssencyon bytwene the duke of Herforde, erle of Derby, on that one partye, and the duke of Norfolke, erle marchall, on that other partye. In soo moche that they waged battaylle and caste downe their gloues whiche were take vppe before the kynge and ensealed, and the day and place assigned at Couentree. To whyche place the kinge came, the duke of Lancastre, and other lordes. And whan both partyes were in the feelde redy for to fyghte, the kyng toke the matere in his owne honde: and forthwyth he exyled and banysshed the duke of Herforde for ten yeres, and the duke of Norfolke for euermore. The duke of Norfolke deyed at Venyse. Polychronicon.
[355] Doubtfull. 1578.
[356] That. N.
[357] Shame. N.
[358] Are iust to. 1578.
[359] Is. 1559, 63.
[360] Herewyth. 1559, 63, 71, 78.
[361] Which made them thinke mee worse then any feende. 1578.
[362] For other griefe. 1578.
[363] I parted thence and. 1578.
[364] The duke of Norffolke whiche supposed to haue been borne out by the kynge, was sore repentant of his enterprise, and departed sorowfully out of the realme into Almaine, and at the laste came to Venice, where he for thoughte and melancolye deceassed. Hall.
[365] More pleasure and reliefe. 1578.
[366] Which was not longe. 1578.
[367] Loo! thus his glory grewe great, by my dispite. 1578.
[368] So enuy euer, her hatred doth acquite. 1578.
Sorrowe and false shame,
Whereby her foes do shine in higher fame. 1578.
[370] Running. 1559.
[371] T. Ch. This signature first added in the edition of 1571, and has been uniformly believed to mean Thomas Churchyard. However, it may be more confidently assigned to Master Chaloner, i. e. Sir Thomas Chaloner.—In the British Museum there is a fragment of the original edition of the Mirror for Magistrates, as printed in folio, during the reign of Queen Mary, and suppressed, as already noticed, by the Lord Chancellor. The fragment consists of two leaves, and which, unfortunately, are duplicates, commencing with the interlocutory matter before the legend of Owen Glendower, and ends with the eighteenth stanza of the same legend. It begins “Whan Master Chaloner had ended thys so eloquent a tragedy,” and therefore appears conclusive that the above was written by Thomas Chaloner, and that the legend of Richard the Second, by Ferrers, which now follows, was first written for the edition of 1559.
When the legend of Jane Shore was added in 1563, Baldwin says: “This was so well lyked, that all together exhorted me instantly to procure Maister Churchyarde to vndertake and to penne as manye moe of the remaynder as myght by any meanes be attaynted at his handes:” which compliment proves that the author was a new candidate, and upon the signatures being first added in 1571, we find his name affixed to “Shore’s Wife,” in full, Tho. Churchyarde, to distinguish it from the above abbreviation for Thomas Chaloner.
[372] About the feeste of seynt Bartholmew fell dyscension and discorde atwene the duke of Herforde and the duke of Norfolke, wherefore the duke of Herforde accusyd that other that he had taken iiii M. marke of the kynge’s, of suche money as he shulde therewith haue wagyd certeyne sowdyours at Calays, he lefte vndon, and toke the same money to his owne vse. But another wryter sayeth, that as the sayd ii dukys rode vpon a tyme from the parlyament towarde theyr lodgynges, the duke of Norfolke sayde vnto that other: “Sir, see you not howe varyable the kynge is in his wordis, and how shamefully he puttyth his lordes and kynnes folkys to deth, and other exylyth and holdyth in pryson; wherfore full necessary it is to kepe, and not for to truste moche in his wordis, for with out dowte in tyme to come, he wyll by such lyke meanys bryng vs vnto lyke deth and distruction.” Of which wordys the sayd duke of Herforde accusyd that other vnto the kynge; wherefore eyther wagyd batayle, &c. Fabyan.
[373] For where as maister Hall, whom in thys storye we chiefely folowed, making Mowbray accuser and Boleynbroke appellant, mayster Fabyan reporteth the matter quite contrary, and that by the reporte of good authours, makyng Boleynbroke the accuser, and Mowbray the appellant. Which matter, &c. 1559, 63.
[374] Recordes of the parliament. 1578.
[375] We referre to the determinacion of the haroldes, or such as may cum by the recordes and registers of these doynges, contented in the mean whyle with the best allowed iudgement and which maketh most for. 1559, 63.
[376] Richard the 2. 1578.
[377] I woulde (quoth one of the cumpany) gladly say sumwhat for king Richarde. But his personage is so sore intangled as I thynke fewe benefices be at this daye, for after hys imprisonment, his brother. 1559, 63.
[378] King, omitted. 1559, 63.
[379] Thinke. 1559, 63, 71, 78.
[380] In the kinge’s behalf. 1559, 63.
[381] See him all. 1559, 63.
[382] Vpon a beere in. 1578.
[383] Makyng his mone in thys sort. 1559, 63.
[384] From his seat, and miserably murdred in prison. 1559, 63.
[385] Vertue to folow and vyces to keepe vnder. 1578.
[386] Boast of high byrth, sword, scepter, ne mace. 1578.
[387] Rayne do drops of thunder. 1578.
[388] Let kinges therfore the lawes of God embrace. 1578.
[389] That vayne delightes. 1578.
[390] Do gase vpon me. 1559, 63.
[391] Lyeth, for whom none late myght rout. 1559, 63.
[392] Princes. 1578.
[393] Loute. 1559, 63, 71. Dead and least dread, to graue is caryed out. 1578.
[394] But earth and clay. 1578.
Behold the woundes his body all about,
Who liuing here, thought, 1578.
[396] Wilt nowe declare. 1571, 78.
[397] My vicious story, 1559, 63.
[398] They kepe not, doutles say I dare. 1559, 63.
[399] Tyll the one. 1559, 63.
[400] Without respect of. 1578.
I am a kynge that ruled all by lust,
That forced not of vertue, right. 1559, 63.
[402] But alway put false flatterers most in trust, 1559, 63.
In false flatterers reposinge all my trust. 1578.
[403] Embracinge sutch. 1578.
[404] Fro counsell sage I did alwayes withdrawe. 1578.
By faythfull counsayle passing not a strawe;
What pleasure prickt, that thought I to be iust:
I set my minde, to feede, to spoyle, to iust. 1559, 63.
[406] Of God or man I stoode no wise in awe. 1578.
[407] More. 1578.
And to augment my lecherous minde that must
To Venus’ pleasures alway be in awe. 1563.
The edition of 1559 reads “and all to augment,” &c.
[409] Which to mayntayne I gathered heapes of golde. 1578.
For maytenaunce where of, my realme I polde
Through subsidies, sore fines, loanes, many a prest. 1559, 63.
[411] In the two and twentyest yere of kynge Rycharde there were made blanke chartres, to whyche all the ryche men of the reame were compellyd to sette to theyr seales. Polychronicon.
[412] For which my subiectes. 1559, 63.
[413] The people my doinges did detest. 1578.
[414] I also made away the towne. 1559, 63.
[415] Prince’s vices may not be. 1559, 63.
[416] I founde the meanes that he to death was sold. N.
His lyfe I tooke, vntried without quest,
And all sutch lordes as did his cause vphold. 1578.
The piers and lordes that did his cause vpholde,
With death, exile, or greuous fines opprest. 1559, 63.
[419] Neyther lakt I ayd in. 1559, 63.
[420] A kyng can neuer ymagen. 1559, 63.
[421] But most about hym will. 1559, 63.
[422] Some to do the same most glad. 1578.
[423] As vicious humours growe. 1559, 63.
[424] Be worst of all. 1578.
[425] Thys can trye. 1559, 63.
[426] Edward. 1578.
[427] Traytors to helpe. 1578.
Ryght trayterously arose
To helpe the Percyes, plying my depose. 1559, 63.
[429] Condemned ten yeares in exyle to lye. 1559, 63.
[430] Who tyrant like did execute all those. 1578.
[431] Of which sort soone after some their liues did lose. 1578.
[432] For when I was cum back thys stur. 1559, 63.
[433] My steward false to whom. 1578.
[434] We in Wales at Flint our castell. 1559, 63.
[435] Dyd. 1559, 63.
[436] There in my hall, mindinge to fly the coast. 1578.
[437] Rebreake hys staffe, my housholde offyce stay. 1559, 63.
[438] No better stay then in a rotten post. 1578.
[439] Resigne, abandoning my throane. 1578.
[440] Forsaken left and post. N.
For whan my trayterous stuard thus was goen,
My seruantes shranke away on euery syde,
That caught I was, and caryed to my foen:
Who for theyr prince a pryson dyd provyde,
And therin kept me tyll duke Henrye’s pryde
Dyd cause me yelde hym vp my crowne and throne:
Which shortely made my frendly foes to grone,
For Henry seyng in me theyr falshode tryed,
Abhorde them all, and would be rulde by none;
For which they sought to stoppe hym strayt a tyde. 1559, 63.
[442] Yet some conspir’d. N.
[443] Conspiring streight their new prince. 1578.
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.
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.
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.
But sent syr Pierce of Exton, a traytrous knyght,
To Pomfret castell, with other, armed lyght. 1559, 63.
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.
[474] Monark. 1578.
[475] Rather then he should be forgotten. I wil pray maister Phaer, who of late hath placed hymselfe in that country, and haply hath met with his ghost in the forest of Kylgarran, that he wil say somwhat in his person. 1578.
[476] One of fortune’s darlynges, rather than he should be forgotten, I will tel hys tale for him vnder the pryuelidge of Martine hundred: which, &c. 1559, 63.
[477] Excepted, so sore hath famyne and hunger consumed hym, may lament his folly after. 1559, 63.
[478] Lamente his great misfortune in sutch maner as you, maister Phaer, are able most amptly to vtter and set forth. 1578.
[479] Henry then prince. 1559, 63.
[480] Henry then prince thereof chased. Fol.
[481] He most miserably starued for hunger. 1578.
[482] Anno 1401, added. 1571.
[483] Falles. Fol.
[484] May teach all men ambition to flye. 1578.
[485] Her. Fol. 1559, 63.
My body and fame she hathe made leane and slender,
For I, poor wretch, am sterved Owen Glendour. Fol. 1559, 63.
Oh false fortune, fortune, vengeaunce on thee, I crye:
Which offering a sop of sweet receyt,
Haste made me byte the hooke in steede of bayt. 1578.
[487] A Brytton borne. 1578.
[488] Of a gentle blood. Fol. 1559, 63.
[489] Make men good. Fol.
[490] So doth not soule or mynd. Fol. 1559, 63.
[491] Them doo render. Fol.
[492] And generally. Fol.
[493] Doth any property that theyr dame had, want. Fol. 1559, 63.
[494] In vertuous deedes. Fol. 1559, 63.
[495] Of vertue’s life. 1578.
[496] For. Fol.
[497] The pryde. 1559, 63.
[498] To which the mule. 1559, 63.
[499] The braging mule could nere. N.
[500] Wer. Fol. Is. 1559, 63.
[501] May, omitted. 1578.
[502] Is. Fol. 1559.
[503] Our parents’ good is theirs. N.
[504] Vertues theyrs are and not ours. Fol. 1559, 63.
[505] Noble kynd. Fol. 1559, 63.
[506] Or shine. N.
[507] Be his. Fol.
[508] Doth make a gentilman. Fol. 1559. Make a gentyll man. 1563.
[509] Of elders shew he can. Fol. 1559, 63.
[510] Merlin, whose father was an hob. Fol.
[511] For omitted. N.
[512] By many of Merlyne’s tales. Fol. 1559, 63.
[513] Such mates. N.
[514] I, inserted. 1571. So perforce I. N.
[515] Did. 1557.
[516] And with rich spoyles did homward. Fol.
[517] ’Gainst. N.
[518] A renowned knight. N.
[519] A, omitted. N.
[520] That, inserted. 1571. Omitted. N.
[521] A, omitted. N.
[522] Other. Fol.
[523] T’abide. N.
[524] And pitched downe his field hard. N.
[525] Neither other’s power durst. N.
[526] To the mountaines. Fol.
[527] See. Fol. 1559, 63.
[528] Got. Fol. 1559.
[529] The fragment of the folio, in the British Museum, ends here.
[530] Strifes. N.
[531] To put hym, 1557, 63.
[532] Holy. N.
[533] Apt. N.
[534] Here I passe ouer to declare howe a certayne writer writeth that this earle of Marche, the lorde Percy, and Owen Glendor were vnwisely made beleue by a Welsh prophecier, that kyng Henry was the moldwarpe, cursed of Godde’s owne mouthe, that and they thre were the dragon, the lion, and the wolffe, whiche shoulde deuide this realme betwene theim, by the deuiacion and not deuinacion of that mawmet Merlin. I wyll not reherse howe they by their deputies in the howse of the archdeacon of Burgor, seduced with that falce fained prophesie deuided the realme amongest them, nor yet write howe by a tripartie endenture sealed with their seales, all Englande, from Seuerne and Trent, south and eastward, was assigned to the erle of Marche; nor how all Wales, and the landes beyond Seuerne westward, were appoincted to Owen Glendor, and all the remnaunt from Trent northwarde to the lorde Percie. Hall.
[535] So folly did assure. N.
[536] As sures by sots. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78. As carelesse sots. N.
[537] Thine vncle Thomas Percy forst. N.
[538] When Henry kyng. 1559, 63. When Henry this great victory. N.
[539] Luckly. N.
[540] The prophet. N.
[541] Else. N.
[542] Payn prayed. 1559, 63.
[543] Stronge. 1578.
Forst mee to feede on barke of trees, and wood,
And last of all, to gnaw my flesh and bloud. 1578.
[545] A, omitted. N.
[546] For him that did so ill. 1578.
[547] The vayne desires, when wit doth yeeld to will. 1578.
[548] Fly false prophets. N.
[549] Lyinge skill. 1578.
[550] Owen and his sedicious fautors, which beyng dismaied and in maner desperate of all comfort by the reason of the kynge’s late victory fled in desert places and solitary caues, where he receiued a finall reward mete and prepared by Godde’s prouidence for suche a rebell and sedicious seducer. For beyng destitute of all comfort, dreadyng to shewe his face to any creature, lackyng meate to sustain nature, for pure hunger and lacke of fode miserably ended his wretched life. This ende was prouided for suche as gaue credence to false prophesies. This ende had they that by diabolical deuinations wer promised great possessions and seignories. This ende happeneth to suche as beleuyng suche fantasticall folies, aspire and gape for honor and high promocions. Hall.
[551] Thomas Phaer. The above signature first added in ed. 1578, is omitted in ed. 1587, though confirmed by the next note. The name is subscribed in Niccols.
[552] Whan mayster Phaer had ended the tragedy of thys hunger staruen prynce of Wales, it was well liked of al the company that a Saxon would speake so mutch for a Brytton, then sodenly one found a doubt. 1578.
[553] That. 1559, 63.
[554] Percy, added. 1571.
[555] Sir, added. 1571.
[556] As followeth, added. 1571.
[557] Anno 1407, added. 1571.
[558] Kynsfolke. 1559, 63.
[559] For our peers. N.
[560] For few there were, that were so much redoubted. N.
[561] My valyauntise were. 1559, 63.
[562] Through our foes. N.
[563] Foes. N.
[564] In favour and offyce. 1559, 63.
[565] I had a son. 1559, 63.
[566] Foes. N.
[567] Syr Henry Hotspur they gaue hym to name. 1559, 63.
[568] Clere from. 1559, 63, 71. N.
[569] And openly proclaymed trayterous knight. 1559, 63. A most disloyall knight. N.
[570] And soone. N.
[571] This alonely. 1559, 63.
[572] Nor age. N.
[573] Foes. N.
[574] With chaines fast bound. N.
[575] ’Gainst Mortimer and me. N.
[576] That. 1559, 63.
[577] To. N.
[578] Our. N.
[579] Seased. N.
[580] Into Scotland fled. N.
Who in my cause with many more made head,
And when on hope of greater aid I fed. N.
[582] Vnend. 1559, 63.
[583] Therle of Northumberland, which had been in Fraunce and other regions to obteigne aide against kyng Henry, and had missed of his purpose, nowe putte his whole confidence in the Scottes, and in especiall in hys old frende George earle of Marche, and so assembled a greate power of the Scottish nacion to inuade Northumberlande, and recouered diuerse of his owne castles and seignories, to whome the people without nombre daily resorted. Wherfore he entendyng to be reuenged of hys olde greues, accompaignied with the lorde Bardolffe and diuerse other Scottes and Englishemen entred into Yorkeshire and there began to destroy and depopulate the countrye. Wherof the kynge beyng aduertised, caused a greate army to bee assembled and marched toward his enemies, but or the kyng came to Notyngham, Raufe Rekesbie, shrife of Yorkshire, in the middest of February, with the power of the countrye, sodainly set on therle and his compaignie, at the place called Bramham More, where after long fighting, the erle and the lorde Bardolffe, and many other, were taken and brought to Yorke and there executed, and their heddes sent to London. Hall.
[584] Scape. N.
[585] This legend is without signature in all the editions, but usually attributed to William Baldwin.
[586] In the ix yere was syr Edmond erle of Kent made amerall of the see, whyche kept the see worthyly wyth many ryall shyppes. And at laste he londed at the costes of Brytayn in the yle of Bryak, and beseged the castell, and sawted it. And with a quarel he was slayn. But neuertheless the castel was goten. And thenne his meyne came home agayn wyth therles body, whyche was buryed wyth his auncestres worshipfully. Polychronicon.
[587] Plantagenet, added. 1571.
[588] Anno Dom. 1415. added. 1571.
[589] Most. 1578.
[590] As. 1578.
[591] Meaners. 1578.
[592] Do. 1578.
[593] Wer’t. N.
[594] Of the. 1559, 63.
[595] The night before the day of deperture appoincted, he (the king) was credebly informed that Richarde, earle of Cambridge, brother to Edward, duke of Yorke, and Henry, lorde Scrope, and syr Thomas Gray, knyght, had compassed his death and finall destruction: wherfore he caused theim to be apprehended lamentyng sore his chaunce that he should be compelled to loose suche personages by whose valiantnes and puissaunce he shuld be more dreadfull and fearefull to his foes and enemies. When these prisoners were examined, they not onely confessed the conspiracy, but also declared that for a great some of mony which they had receiued of the Frenche kyng, they intended either to deliuer the kyng aliue in to the handes of his enemies, or els to murther hym before that he should arriue in the duchy of Normandy. Hall.
[596] Rules. N.
[597] God. 1559, 1563.
[598] W. Baldwine. N.
[599] Q. for quoth. 1563.
[600] The, added. 1587.
[601] So, added. 1571.
[602] Of fortune, iustly may say thus. 1559, 63.
[603] The earle. 1559, 63.
[604] At Orleaunce, added. 1571.
[605] The 3 of Nouember, Anno 1428, added. 1571.
[606] A goodly thing we deeme of good report. N.
[607] Seen. 1559, 63, 75, 78.
[608] In. 1559, 63.
[609] How some. N.
[610] My sire and th’earle. N.
[611] Purpose well. N.
[612] Of wrath. 1578.
[613] Hath, misprint. 1563. Hateth. N.
[614] My lims. N.
[615] Hys. 1559, 63.
[616] The, misprint. 1563.
[617] Where ere. N.
[618] Lorde Thomas Montacute, earle of Salisbury, a man bothe for his greate pollicie and haut corage more to be compared to the old valiant Romans then to men of his daies. Hall.
[619] Do norish. 1578.
[620] And in theyr spech for to declare of. 1559.
[621] He was the man at that tyme, by whose wit, strength, and pollicie, the Englishe name was muche fearfull and terrible to the Frenche nacion, whiche of hymselfe might bothe appoynt, commaunde and do all thynges in maner at hys pleasure, in whose power (as it appeared after hys deathe) a greate part of the conquest consisted and was estemed, because he was a man bothe painfull and diligent, redy to withstand thynges perilous and imminent, and prompt in counsail, and with no labor be weried, nor yet hys corage at any tyme abated or appalled, so that all men put no more trust in any one man, nor no synguler person gat more the hartes of all men. Hall.
[622] Confesse. N.
[623] Covet them to spoyle. 1559.
[624] Had. 1559.
[625] The text is restored here from the editions of 1559, and 63, as in the others it uniformly stands ‘hee.’
[626] The dolphyn sent lorde Wyllyam Stuard, constable of Scotland, and therle of Ventadore in Auergne, and many other nobles of his part to laie siege to the toune of Crauant, in the countie of Auxerre, within the partes of Burgoyn, wherof heryng the lorde regent and the duke of Burgoyn thei assembled a greate armie, the erle of Salisbury was ordeined capitaine of the whiche. Hall.
[627] After thys fortunate vyctorye obteigned, the englishemen fyrste gaue greate laudes and thankes to allmyghtie God and after entered into the towne of Crauant much praisinge the doynges of the capitaines and the fidelitie of the citezens, and when they had set all thynges in an ordre they returned to Paris where of the regente they wer ioyously receiued, whiche there constituted therle of Salisbury (as he was wel worthy) vicegerent and lieftenaunt for the king and him in the countries of Fraunce, Bry, and Champaigne. Hall.
[628] Causde me go. N.
[629] Therle of Salisbury whiche could not slepe in his great office of truste, layde siege to the toune and castle of Monntaguilon in Bry, wherof were capitainis Pregent of Cotyny, and Giulle Bourgoys, Brytons, whiche valiantly defended the castle by the space of v. monethes, &c. Hall.
[630] With earles, with lordes. N.
[631] To driue the treacherous dolphin out of France. N.
[632] T’Aniow. N.
[633] Flee. 1563.
[634] As might or help. N.
[635] The boldest Frenchmen. N.
[636] ‘Will’ in all the editions except that of 1587.
Being fortie thousand well arm’d in field,
Fiue hundred men enforced them to yeeld. N.
[638] Did assault them. 1559. Fresh assaulted. N.
[639] Soone. N.
[640] Where in good hope to. N.
[641] Forth. N.
[642] Forward. 1559, 63, 71, 78.
[643] But would hope sure. 1559.
[644] It so chaunced that the lix. daie after the siege laied before the cytie, therle of Salisbury, sir Thomas Gargraue, and Wyllyam Glasdale, and diuerse other, went into the said toure and so into the highe chambre, and loked out at the grate, and within a shorte space, the sonne of the maister gonner, perceiued men loking out at the wyndowe, tooke his matche, as his father had taughte hym whiche was gone doune to dinner, and fired the gonne, whiche brake and sheuered the yron barres of the grate, wherof one strake therle so strongly on the hed, that it stroke away one of his iyes and the side of hys cheke. Sir Thomas Gargraue was lykewyse striken, so that he died within two daies. Therle was conueyed to Meum vpon Loyre, where he laie beyng wounded viii. dayes, duryng whiche tyme he receiued deuoutly the holy sacramentes, and so commended his soule to almighty God, whose body was conueyed into Englande with all funerall and pompe, and buried at Bissam, by his progenitors. Hall.
[645] Of glory. 1559, 63, 71, 75. The most vncertaine glorie. N.
[646] Sure be, misprint. 1587. Then mortall fooles. N.
[647] W. Baldwine. N.
[648] Quoth. 1559, 63.
[649] Nor the last. 1559, 63, 71, 75.
[650] The heire (sir Stephen de Veignolles) perceiuynge the hartes, corage, and defence of the Englishe people, caused thre culuerynes to be shot emongest theim, whereof one strake the erle (of Arundel) on the ancle, and so brake hys legge that for pain he fell from hys horsse, then the Frenche men entered emongest the Englishe army, and tooke the erle beyng on the grounde, prisoner.... The erle was caried to Beauoys, where of this hurte he shortly died, and was buried in the frier’s minors. He was a man of a singuler vertue, constancie and grauitie, whose death in so troubelous a worlde, did sore appall the hartes of his nacion. Hall.
[651] Anno 1437, added. 1571.
[652] Write. 1559, 63, 71.
[653] For fault of foode. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
[654] A trusted brother ’stroy hys brother’s blood. 1559, 63. Trusted brother distroy. 1571.
[655] Hys deth. 1559, 63.
[656] To auoyd. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
[657] Me prysoner. 1559, 63, 71.
[658] An, misprint. 1587.
[659] This young prince and Henry Percie, sonne to the lorde Percie slaine before at Shrewesbury, by rigor of tempest were driuen on the cost of Holdeines, called Flamborough hed, the xxx daie of Marche, where the yonge prince for to refreshe hymselfe toke lande. He wrought not so preuely, but he was knowen and taken with all his company, and conueighed to the kyng beynge at Winsore. Hall.
[660] I were. 1559, 63, 71.
[661] Before that tyme the people of Scotland were rude, rusticall, without any vrbanitie, hauyng litle lernyng, and lesse good maners, and good qualities least of all. This prince beeyng XVIII. yeres prisoner within this realme, was so instructed and taught by hys schoolmaster, and pedagoges apointed to hym by the onely clemencie of the kynge, that he not onely florished in good learnynge and freshe litterature (as the tyme then serued) but also excelled in all poynctes of marciall feates, musicall instrumentes, poeticall artes and liberall sciences. In so muche that at hys returne from captiuitee, he furnished hys realme bothe with good learnynge and cyuill policye, whiche before was barbarous, seuage, rude, and without all good nurtur. Hall.
[662] The protector of the realme of Englande, by the consent of the whole baronage of the same gaue to him in maryage the lady Jane doughter to Jhon earle of Sommerset, desceased, not onely syster to Iohn then duke of Sommerset, but also cosyn germayne remoued to the kynge and nece to the cardynall of Winchester and the duke of Exceter. Hall.
[663] The heyre. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
[664] Mardo, in ed. 1587; all the others support the above correction.
[665] Neither regarding his othe, nor estemynge the great abundaunce of plate and riche clothes of Arras, to hym by the mother and vncles of his wife liberally geuen and frendly deliuered, (of whiche sorte of riches fewe or none before that daie wer euer seen in the countrey of Scotlande) like a dogge whiche hath cast vp his stomacke and retourneth to his vomet, or like a snake whiche after his engenderyng with a lampray taketh again his old poyson, after he had once taken the ayre and smelled the sent of the Scottishe soyle became like his false fraudulent forefathers, an vntrue prince, &c. Hall.
[666] The. 1559, 63.
[667] He (Walter Steward, erle of Atholl) perswaded Robert Steward, hys nephew, and Robert Grame, hys cosyn, and dyuerse other, to murther and sleye the kynge theyre souereigne lorde, whiche therto by diuelyshe instigacyon incenced and procured, came to the toune of Pertho (commonly called S. Ihon’s towne) and there entered into the kinge’s priuy chambre, and slewe first diuerse of hys seruauntes, whiche made resistance and after kylled the kyng with many mortall strokes, and hurt the quene, whiche, in defence of her husband, felled one of the traytors. Hall.
[668] Or. 1559, 63, 71, 78.
[669] Such as. 1559.
[670] Without signature in every edition, and therefore attributed to Baldwin.
[671] The legends of dame Elinour Cobham, and of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, were only first printed 1578. That they were written, and probably printed, in 1559, (if not for the edition in folio,) appears certain as well by the table of contents, where they are enumerated, as by the interlocutory connection being nearly the same with the above, and which in the succeeding editions of 1563, 1571, and 1575, is varied according to the notes upon the prefixture of the legend of the duke of Suffolk, given p. 146.
[672] Quod. 1559.
[673] (Q. M. Fer.) and as. 1559.
[674] Haue here ready penned ii. 1559.
[675] The. 1559.
[676] Is fyrst to be placed in. 1559.
[677] Was cause of ouerthrow to both. 1559.
[678] Blith. N.
[679] Form. N.
[680] Dames. N.
[681] For to diuine. N.
[682] There was taken also Margerie Gurdemaine, a witch of Eye, besides Westminster, whose sorcerie and witchcraft the said Elianor had long time vsed, and by hir medicines and drinkes enforced the duke of Glocester to loue hir, and after to wed hir. Stowe.
[683] Furies and feends her. N.
[684] Corps. N.
[685] Roger Bolinbrooke, a great astronomer, with Thomas Southwell, a chanon of S. Stephen’s chappell at Westminster, were taken as conspiratours of the king’s death, for it was said that the same Roger should labour to consume the king’s by waie of negromancie, and the said Thomas should say masses in the lodge of Harnesey parke, beside London, vpon certaine instruments, with the which the said Roger should vse his crafte of negromancie, against the faith, and was assenting to the said Roger in all his workes. And the fiue and twentith day of Julie, being Sondaie, Roger Bolingbroke, with all his instruments of negromancie, that is to say, a chayre painted wherein he was woont to sit; vppon the foure corners of which chayre stoode foure swordes, and vpon euery sworde an image of copper hanging, with many other instrumentes: he stoode on a high scaffolde in Paule’s churchyarde, before the crosse, holding a sword in his right hand, and a scepter in his left, arrayed in a maruellous attire, and after the sermon was ended by master Low, bishop of Rochester, he abiured all articles longing to the crafte of negromancie, or missowning to the faith. Stowe.
[686] The king’s true constellation. N.
[687] Deepest. N.
[688] Nerethelesse. N.
[689] This yere (1442-3) dame Elyanour Cobham, wyfe to the sayd duke, was accused of treason, for that she, by sorcery and enchaunment, entended to destroy the kyng to thentent to aduaunce and promote her husbande to the croune: vpon thys she was examined in sainct Stephen’s chapell, before the bishop of Canterbury, and there by examinacion conuict and iudged to do open penaunce, in iii. open places, within the cytie of London, and after that adiudged to perpetuall prisone, in the Isle of Man, vnder the kepyng of Sir Ihon Stanley, knyght. At the same season wer arrested as ayders and counsailers to the said duchesse, Thomas Southwell, prieste and chanon of saincte Stephens in Westmynster, Ihon Hum, prieste, Roger Bolyngbroke, a conyng nycromancier, and Margerie Jourdayne, surnamed the witche of Eye, to whose charge it was laied, that thei, at the request of the duchesse had deuised an image of waxe, representyng the kyng whiche by their sorcery, a litle and litle consumed, entending therby in conclusion to waist, and destroy the kynge’s person, and so to bryng him to deathe, for the whiche treison, thei wer adiudged to dye, and so Margery Jordayne was brent in Smithfelde, and Roger Bolyngbroke was drawen and quartered at Tiborne, takyng vpon his deathe that there was neuer no suche thyng by theim ymagined, Jhon Hum had his pardon, and Southwell died in the toure before execution: the duke of Gloucester toke all these thynges paciently, and saied litle. Hall.
[690] The 9 of Nouember dame Elianor appeered before the archbishop and other in the sayde chappell (of S. Stephen’s), and receiued her penance which she performed. On Monday the 13 of Nouember, she came from Westminster, by water, and landed at the Temple bridge, from whence with a taper of waxe of two pound in hir hande, she went through Fletestreete, hoodlesse (saue a kerchefe) to Paul’s, where she offered hir taper at the high altar. On the Wednesday next shee landed at the swan in Thamis streete, and then went through Bridgestreete, Gracechurchstreete, straight to Leaden Hall, and so to Christ church by Aldegate. On fryday she landed at Queene hiue, and so went through Cheape to S. Michael’s in Cornehill, in forme aforesaid: at all which times the maior, sherifes, and crafts of London, receiued her and accompanied hir. This being done she was committed to the ward of Sir Thomas Stanley, wherein she remained during hir life in the castle of Chester, hauing yeerely 100 markes assigned for hir finding, in the 22 of Henry the sixt she was remooued to Kenilwoorth, there to be safely kept, whose pride, false couetise, and lecherie, were cause of hir confusion. Stowe.
[691] A ballad, that has been modernized, entitled “the lamentable fall of the dutchess of Gloucester, wife to good duke Humphry, with the manner of her doing penance in London streets, and of her exile in the Isle of Man, where she ended her days,” may be found in Evans’s Old Ballads, historical and narrative, ed. 1784, Vol. I. p. 317.
[692] The house. 1578.
[693] I shall see you. 1578.
[694] Good peace. 1578.
[695] G. Ferrers. The peculiarity of the above signature in the addition of quod is noticeable, though, probably, it originated with the printer.
[696] Knyt vp the ende of her. 1578.
[697] Behold me Humfrey hight by name. N.
Who in the sixt king Henrie’s rule, with fame
Twice ten yeares kept the troubled state in frame;
Note well the cause of my vnhappie case,
And ’mongst thy mirrours let the same haue place. N.
[699] Weale, let men beware mishap. N.
[700] With blind securitie. N.
[701] To trust their state. N.
[702] Most smiles to haue in memorie. N.
[703] Who in most certaintie. N.
[704] Men. N.
[705] Same approue. N.
[706] To bite on fawning flatterie’s bait did loue. N.
Had I to high degree,
And yet in fine they all beguiled mee. N.
[708] Of Henry fourth by name. N.
[709] Henry fift of that same name. N.
[710] To the sixt Henrie vncle. N.
[711] To build vpon. N.
[712] To aduance my. N.
[713] When the fift Henry by his valiancie. N.
[714] T’haue. N.
[715] Which all states do spill. N.
[716] From a feend. N.
[717] Do verefy. 1578.
[718] For euermore. N.
[719] Histories. N.
[720] Neretheless. N.
[721] Bitter. N.
[722] In this season (i of Hen. VI.) Homfrey duke of Gloucester, either blynded with ambicion or dotyng for loue, maried the lady Jaquet or Jacomin doughter and sole heire to William of Bauier duke of Holland, whiche was lawfull wife to Ihon duke of Brabant then liuyng. Which mariage was not onely woundered at of the common people but also detested of the nobilitie, and abhorred of the clergie. But suerly the swete tast, of this plasant mariage, brought after a sower sauce, bothe to the amorous housbande and to the wanton wife. Hall.
[723] Feends. N.
[724] So in editions 1578, 87, and Niccols, but appears a misprint for convicted.
[725] With. N.
[726] Was. N.
[727] Could wake. N.
[728] Of my false foes. N.
[729] A parliament was somoned to be kept at Bery, whether resorted all the peres of the realme, and emongest them the duke of Gloucester, whiche on the second daie of the session was by the lord Beamonde, then highe constable of Englande, accompanied with the duke of Buckyngham, and other, arrested, apprehended, and put in warde, and all his seruauntes sequestred from hym, and xxxii. of the chiefe of his retinue, were sente to diuerse prisons, to the greate admiracion of the common people. The duke the night after hys emprisonement, was found dedde in his bed, and his body shewed to the lordes and commons, as thoughe he had died of a palsey or empostome: but all indifferent persons well knewe that he died of no natural death, but of some violent force. Hall.
[730] The vnsure. 1578.
[731] They lyue in. 1578.
[732] G. Ferrers. N.
[733] Both the realmes. 1578.
[734] Were the chiefe workers. 1578.
[735] Whan thys was sayd: “Let kyng Jamy go,” quod mayster Ferrers, “and retourn we to our owne story, and se what broyles wer among the nobylyty in the kynge’s mynorytye. How that cardinall Bewford malygneth the estate of good duke Humfrey the kynge’s vncle and protector of the realme, and by what driftes he first banisheth his wife from him. And lastly howe the good duke is murderously made away through conspiracy of queene Margaret and other: both whose tragedyes I entend at leysure to declare, for they be notable.” “Do so, I pray you,” quod another, “but take hede ye demurre not vpon them. And I to be occupyed the meane tyme, wyll shew what I haue noted in the duke of Suffolke’s doynges, one of the chefest of duke Humfrey’s destroyers, who, &c.” 1563, 71. See p. 111, note 1.
[736] Notable death, which he may lament after thys maner. 1559, 63.
[737] And sayling. 1571, 75.
[738] Lord, omitted. 1578.
[739] And procuringe the death of Duke Humfrey of Glocester, protector of England. 1578.
[740] Anno 1450. added 1571. Anno Dom. N.
[741] Banysht, headed so, and drowned. 1559, 63.
[742] Wherfore good Baldwin. 1578.
And therfore, Baldwyn, fro thy grave of gryefe
Reiect me not, of wretched prynces chief. 1559, 63.
[744] Or. 1559, 63.
[745] Good hap wyth vyces cannot long agree. 1559, 63.
[746] I am the prynce duke Wyllyam. 1559, 63.
[747] That was so famous in. 1559, 63.
[748] Whose vertuous paynes. 1559, 63.
[749] The. 1559.
[750] Luckly. N.
[751] Though Burgoyne duke had then the praise of all. N.
[752] Ere. N.
[753] Of. 1578.
[754] Help need to sue. N.
[755] And a princely. N.
[756] Heire. N.
[757] And of. 1578.
[758] Hated it. N.
[759] Gaine. N.
[760] Whom. 1559, 63, 71, 78.
[761] Should. 1578.
[762] Deeds. N.
[763] To have. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
[764] The queene, whiche entierly loued the duke, fearynge that some commocion and trouble might ryse, if he were let goo vnpuneshed, caused hym to be committed to the towre, where he was kepte with as muche pleasure as he that was at large, and oute of all captiuitie. But after that a monethe was expyred, she ymagenynge the people to bee pacifyed with this open emprysonment, caused hym both to be deliuered, and also to be restored to the kynge’s fauour and grace, as muche as euer he was before that tyme. But this doynge incensed the furye of the mutable commons, muche more then before: openly demounsynge and saiyng, that it was a shame to all the realme, to se such a persone, infected with so many mysdedes, either to rule about a prince or be had in honor. Of these wordes sprang dedes, and of this talkyng rose displeasure, whiche had growen to greate mischiefe, if politique prouision had not, with all celeritye, resisted the first fury: for the commons in sundry places of the realme assembled together, gathered great companies, and elected a capytayn, whom they called blew berde: but or they had attempted any enterprise, their headdes were apprehended and so the members sodainly were dispersed, without any hurte committed, or perpetrated. Hall.
[765] To adiourne. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
As I was saylyng toward the coast of Fraunce,
The earle of Deuonshyre’s barke, of lytle pryce. 1559, 63.
[767] Whose captayne toke me by hys valyaunce. 1559, 63.
[768] But led me with hym into. 1559, 63.
[769] Where whan he had recounted me my. 1559, 63.
[770] In causyng. 1559, 63.
[771] On the edge wherof my. 1559, 63.
[772] Fortune wold not, that this flagitious person, shoulde so escape, for when he shipped in Suffolke, entendynge to be transported into Fraunce, he was encontered with a shippe of warre appertaininge to the duke of Excester, the constable of the towre of London, called the Nicholas of the Toure. The capitaine of the same barke with small fighte, entered into the duke’s shippe, and perceiuynge his person present, brought hym to Douer rode, and there on the one syde of a cocke bote, caused his heade to be striken of, and left hys body with the heade vpon the sandes of Douer, whiche corse was there founde by a chapelayne of his, and conuaied to Wyngfelde colledge in Suffolke, and there buried. This ende had William de la Pole, first duke of Suffolke, as men iudge, by God’s punishment: for aboue all thynges he was noted to be the very organ, engine, and deuiser of the destrucion of Humfrey the good duke of Gloucester, and so the bloudde of the innocente man was with his dolorous deathe, recompensed and punished. Hall.
A pyteous ende, and therefore, Baldwyn, warne
All pyers and prynces, to abhorre vntroth,
For vycyous grayne must cum to fowl endes barne:
Who brueth breach of lawfull bond or oth,
God wyll ere long, cause all the world to loth:
Was neuer prynce that other dyd oppresse
Vnryghteously, but dyed in distresse. 1559, 63.
[774] Initials added in ed. 1571. W. Baldwine. N.
[775] Wycked man so maruaylously well punyshed. 1559, 63.
[776] Cade beinge but base borne, of no abylytye. 1559, 63.
[777] The passage in brackets added 1571.
[778] Naming himselfe Mortimer, added. 1571.
[779] In June Anno, 1450, added. 1571.
[780] Shall I it fortune call. N.
[781] Lifte. 1578. Rais’d. N.
[782] Vp, added. 1571.
[783] Or strength of stars, which make men high to growe? 1578.
[784] Ere. N.
[785] The will. N.
[786] Be stout. N.
[787] The grace. N.
[788] So. 1559, 63.
[789] Grace be giuen to some man. N.
[790] Yet fewe there be ’mongst men that vse it can. N.
[791] The spirit weake, and will strong. N.
[792] Comes. N.
[793] For fortune is the only foe of those. N.
Wherefore I thought to be my prince’s mate,
And by some meane his power to abate:
And for that ends Mortimer would be nam’de,
Heyre apparant of England once proclaym’de. 1578.
[795] Because the Kentishe-men be impatient in wronges, disdainyng of to much oppression and euer desirous of new chaung, and new fangelnes; the ouerture of this matter was put furthe firste in Kent, and to the entente that it should not be knowen that the duke of Yorke or his frendes were the cause of the sodaine risyng: a certaine yong man of a goodely stature, and pregnaunt wit, was entised to take vpon hym the name of Ihon Mortimer allthoughe his name were Iohn Cade. Hall.
[796] As our enemies. 1578.
[797] Trap. 1559. Tray. 1563. To tary sought. 1578. To stay him. N.
[798] T’imprison. N.
[799] The, omitted. 1578.
[800] Thynges after my desyer. 1559, 63.
[801] Th’heape. N.
[802] Vpon the thyrde daye of Julii, he caused syr James Fynes, lorde Say, and threasorer of England, to be broughte to the Gylde-halle of London, and there to be arrayned: whiche beyng before the kynge’s iustices put to answere, desyred to be tryed by his peers, for the lengar delay of his life. The capytaine perceiuynge hys dilatorie ple, by force took hym from the officers, and brought him to the standard in Cheape, and there before his confession ended, caused his head to be cut of, and pitched it on a hyghe poole, which was openly borne before him through the stretes. And this cruell tyraunt not content with the murder of the lorde Say, wente to Myle ende, and there apprehended syr James Cromer, then shreue of Kent, and sonne in law to the said lorde Say, and him without confession or excuse hearde, caused there like wise to be hedded, and his heade to bee fixed on a poole, and with these two heddes, this bloody butcher entered into the cytie agayn, and in despite caused them in euery strete kysse together, to the greate detestacion of all the beholders. Hall.
[803] And into Sussex rode, all hope was lost. N.
[804] Apprehend. corrected by ed. 1578, all the others read apprend.
[805] Made men. 1559.
[806] But ere I fell I put. N.
[807] For two longe howres, our combat. 1578.
[808] A gentylman of Kent named Alexander Iden, awayted so his tyme, that he toke hym in a gardyn in Sussex, where in the takynge of hym the sayd Iak was slayne: and so beyng deed was brought into Southwarke the —— day of the moneth of September, and there lefte in the Kynge’s Benche for that nyght. And vpon morowe the deed corps was drawen through the hyghe stretes of the cytie vnto Newgate, and there hedyd and quarteryd, whose hede was than sent to London brydge and his iiii quarters were sent to iiii sondry townes of Kent. Fabyan.
[809] Debities. 1559, 63, 71.
[810] Still, restored from ed. 1563. It is omitted in all those subsequent.
[811] As, omitted. 1578.
[812] The lord. 1559, 63.
[813] And therefore. 1559, 63. Wherefore, O Baldwine. N.
[814] Must know his state, and. 1578.
Who lyst to stand at large,
Must folowe skyll, and flye all worldly charge. 1559, 63.
This legend is subscribed W. Baldwine, by Niccols.
[816] Q. for quoth. 1559, 63.
[817] Howe vpryghtly also and howe lyke. 1559, 63.
[818] Determined the office both of magistrates and subiects. For in deede magistrates. 1578.
[819] Wycked ende. 1559, 63. Shal neuer see good end of hys attempt. 1578.
[820] Q. 1559, 63.
[821] Nay rather let. 1559, 63.
[822] “Marched towarde London: but the kyng with his power taried and met him at Saint Albone’s. Where whyle the kyng and he wer about a treatye, therle of Warwyke set vpon the king’s army and slew the duke of Somerset, the earle of Northumberland, the lorde Clyfforde, and other, and in conclusyon got the victorye, and the duke was made lorde protector, which so greved the quene and her accomplices, that pryuye grutches and open dissemblyng neuer ceased tyl the duke, and his allyes were glad to flee the field and realme, he in to Irelande, they to Calayes: whence they came agayne with an army whereof the earle of Salysbury was leader, and marched toward Coventry wher the king than was and had gathered an armye to subdue them, and encountred them at Northampton, and fought and lost the fyelde and was taken hym selfe, the duke of Buckyngham, the erle of Shrewsbury, the vycount Beaumont, the lord Egermount, and many other of his retynue slayn yf no man haue any mind to any of these noble personages because they were honourably slaine in battayle, let sum man els take the booke, for I mynde to say sum what of this duke of Somerset.”
☞ Whyle he was deuysyng thereon, and every man sekyng farder notes, I loked on the cronicles, and fyndyng styll fyeld vpon fyeld, and many noblemen slaine, I purposed to haue ouerpassed all, for I was so wearye that I waxed drowsye and began in dede to slumber: but my imaginacion styl prosecutyng this tragical matter, brought me such a fantasye. Me thought ther stode before vs, a tall man’s body full of fresshe woundes, but lackyng a head, holdyng by the hande a goodlye chylde, whose brest was so wounded that his hart might be seen, his louely face and eyes disfigured with dropping teares, his heare through horrour standing vpryght, his mercy crauing handes all to be mangled, and al his body enbrued with his own bloud. And whan through the gastfulnes of this pyteous spectacle, I waxed afeard, and turned away my face, me thought there came a shrekyng voyse out of the wesand pype of the headles bodye, saying as foloweth. 1559, 63. See Induction to the legend of Plantagenet Duke of York, p. 183.
[823] Was raysed by some sly drift of the duke of Yorke, who shortly after, by open war, manifested his title to the crowne and therefore gathered an army in Wales, and marched towardes London: and preuentinge the kinge goinge northward to prepare an army, in the waye at Sayncte Albanes: who for want of a sufficient power to take the field, was forced with sutch smal power as he had about him, to defend the lanes and backsydes of the towne, and to send out the duke of Buckingham for a treaty, whiche the duke of Yorke beinge head of the contrary faction, woulde not allow without fyrst hauinge the duke of Somerset and other at his will, duringe which treaty Richard Neuill earle of Warwicke, the stout maintayner of Yorcke’s title, entred the towne by force, fought a battayle in the high streat, where of the kinge’s part were slayne the sayd duke of Somerset called Edmond Beauford, Henry Percy the second. 1578.
[824] Stafford, omitted. 1578.
[825] Besides a great number of knightes, esquiers, gentlemen and yeomen of the kinge’s houshold and of other lorde’s seruantes, on whom al the slaughter and bochery fell, beinge all for the more part vnarmed. But, &c. 1578.
[826] In the edition of 1563, this legend succeeds that of Jane Shore (see p. 460), and is followed by the Blacksmith (given p. 396), and has the following induction: “This was so well lyked, that all together exhorted me instantly to procure Maister Churchyarde to vndertake and to penne as manye moe of the remaynder as myght by any meanes be attaynted at his handes. And when I had promysed I wold do my diligence therein, they asked me if I had any mo tragedyes yet vnred, for the euenyng was nowe at hand and there were enow already red to make a handsum volume. “In dede (quod I) I purpose here to ende the second parte of this volume, for here endeth the cruel reigne of kyng Rychard the thyrd: And in another volume hereafter, to dyscourse the resydue from the begynning of kyng Henry the seventh to the ende of this king and Queene’s raigne (if God so long will graunte us lyfe) and I beseche you all that you wyll dylygently performe such storyes as you haue vndertaken, and procure your frendes such as be learned, to help vs with the rest: for ther is in this part mater enough to set al the poetes in England in wurke, and I wold wishe that every fine apt wyt wold at the leest vndertake one: For so wold it be a notable volume. For my parte I entende to be so impudente and importunate a suiter to so manye as I knowe or maye hereafter be acquaynted wyth, that no excuse shall serve to shake me of: and I desyre you all to be as earnest. And to occupye the tyme whyle we be nowe together, I wyl reade vnto you Edmund the Duke of Somerset, which must be placed in the fyrst parte: and than the blacke Smyth, which must serve for thyrde volume, to thende I maye knowe youre iudgement therein.” “Do so we pray you” (qd. they.)”
[827] Not so ill. 1578.
[828] That some attempts haue neuer happy speede. 1578.
[829] But. 1578.
[830] Out wrestle. 1563.
Or in skill,
Wynne what they will and wield the world at will. 1578.
[832] Of the first sorte myselfe I count for one. 1578.
[833] Fell despyte. 1563.
[834] Of my workes never could see. 1563.
[835] Sought. 1578.
[836] Bright, and shone like a starre. 1578.
[837] By malice of me. 1563.
[838] His fame. N.
Normandy yet nethelesse,
Alwayes I wrought that wit might well contriue,
But what bootes it against the streame to striue? 1578.
[840] Maligne and enemy to my trade. 1578.
[841] His, omitted. 1578.
[842] Swarued from Sol vnto. 1578.
[843] All, omitted. 1578.
[844] Well, wanting. 1563.
[845] A bryefe. 1563.
[846] Humfrey to damme that duke most innocent. 1578.
[847] Meane I. 1578.
[848] This worthy prince as a piller longe stood. 1578.
[849] Like to a proppe. 1563. A stronge prop. 1578.
O mad malice where with obeyeth will,
Was there euer any, whom folly did so nome:
Of all forecast, rigth, reason, wit and skill. 1578.
[851] My coosyn’s bloud, my refuge and my stay. 1578.
[852] Bare the sway. 1578.
[853] So long rebelles no quarelles. 1578.
[854] Once pulled. 1563.
The duke of Yorke, than stoutly hee stept in,
And chalenged the crowne by color. 1578.
[856] And in. 1563.
And spred great brutes in England up and downe,
That he of England was the heire true. 1578.
[858] Vsurped had. 1563.
[859] May rue. 1563. Right, by practise most vntrue. 1578.
[860] A chaunge. 1563.
[861] The land. 1563.
[862] Awles wanting one to dread. 1563.
[863] Lawles by weakenes of the heade. 1563.
[864] Where the prynce prest hath alway sword. 1563.
For dread of whom no man dare do amis,
Whose prince is prest alwayes and sword in hand. 1578.
[866] All enemies. 1578.
[867] In case the sonne had proued sutch a one. 1578.
Sure had he sitten in the royall throne,
Dreadlesse, and carelesse of common vpror;
But Henrie’s weakenesse appeered more and more. 1578.
[869] And that gave boldenes to the aduers bande. 1563. Contrary band. 1578.
To the gaye gallants of Yorke’s retinue;
Any lowe ground is highly ouerflowen. 1578.
[871] By bold traytours may bee soone remoued. 1578.
[872] That men durst. 1563.
[873] Head poste. 1563.
[874] Then wanting. 1563.
[875] I, omitted. 1563, 78.
[876] By whose malice this. 1578.
[877] To such a noble man. 1563.
[878] Afterward did ban. 1563.
[879] When our poste removed. 1563.
[880] The close traytour then. 1578.
[881] And he that lay hyd came. 1563. From the dark came. 1578.
[882] Whych thyng to compasse him. 1563.
[883] But this to achieue, first it him behoued. 1578.
[884] For, wanting. 1563.
[885] Who once perforce, or practice ill remoued. 1578.
[886] In hyghest authoritie about his grace. 1563.
Next to the prince and other to abase. 1578.
[887] I was the fyrst. 1571, 75, 78.
[888] Therefore he wrought strayght me to displace. 1563.
[889] For by. 1563.
[890] Would. 1563, 78.
[891] Subdue and haue them at his will. 1578.
[892] That geue. 1578.
[893] Loe, to a rebell what it is to geve place. 1563.
[894] So for the fishe when cast forth was the net. 1578.
[895] His plat. 1563.
[896] Common doltes to cause furiously to fret. 1563.
[897] He standing at. 1563.
[898] Graspe would the pray that he long dyd awayte. 1563.
[899] Practises. 1563.
[900] Which nought lesse meant then he. 1563. Who little ment, that which hee. 1578.
[901] Lurkinge. 1578.
[902] But wanting. 1563.
[903] Then dyd he attempt the people. 1563.
[904] In, wanting. 1563.
[905] The troublous storme yet. N.
[906] How speedily. N.
[907] Like a Judas. 1563.
[908] Thynkinge time. 1578.
[909] Any wanting. 1563.
S. Albane’s towne, where both our hoastes did meete,
To trye a fielde, was not an equall place,
For we were forst to fight within a streete,
With fewe agaynst many, sutch was the case. 1578.
[911] But thought no whit. 1563. But little thought of. 1578.
[912] More foole hee that. 1578.
[913] The stout earle. N.
[914] Clifford couragious could not. N.
[915] Couragious Clifford could not eschewe the dart. 1578.
[916] Stafford although stout, free went not from this marte. 1563.
[917] Ralph Babthorpe sewer to the king, and Ralph his sonne, the king’s attorney. Stowe.
[918] Was found very. 1563.
Babthorp th’attorney, with his skill in law,
In pleeding here appeared very raw. N.
So thus this poore kyng disarmed. 1563.
[920] So thus poore prince disarmed. 1578. King Henrie thus disarmed. N.
[921] Friends all slayne, wantinge good. 1578.
[922] His friends and followers wanting assistence. N.
[923] Depriued. N.
[924] When all in poste it was by acte decreed. 1563.
[925] The duke of Yorke should haue the regally. 1578.
[926] Then came the duke of Somerset, and all the other lordes with the kynge’s power, whiche fought a sore and a cruel battail, in the whiche, many a tall man lost hys lyfe: but the duke of Yorke sent euer freshe men, to succor the wery, and put new men in the places of the hurt persones, by whiche onely pollicie, the kynge’s army was profligat and dispersed, and all the cheeftaines of the fielde almoste slaine and brought to confusion. For there died vnder the signe of the castel, Edmond duke of Somerset, who long before was warned to eschew all castles, and besyde hym lay Henry the second erle of Northumberlande, Humfrey erle of Stafford, sonne to the duke of Buckyngham, Ihon lorde Clifford, &c. Hall.
[927] A liege to. 1563.
[928] Titles should slepe. 1563.
[929] Realme for theyr tryall to wepe. 1563.
[930] From the heyre female came Yorke and his lede. 1563.
[931] And wee Lancastrians. 1578.
[932] I was in fault, or some about the queen. 1563.
[933] Some, omitted. 1578.
Thou lookest, Baldwyn, I should myselfe accuse,
Of some subtyle dryft or other lyke thing. 1563.
To the duke’s foes overmuch adhering,
Though some men’s practise did me thereto bryng. 1563.
[936] Forgeve it me for sore I dyd repent. 1563. To my foes driftes, which I could not preuent. 1578.
[937] England had never felt. 1563.
[938] Second poynt. 1563.
[939] To any aduice agaynst. 1578.
[940] I and other mo abused. 1578.
[941] Therefore. N.
Forecast we lackt, which cannot be excused,
Of thinges to come, as soone. 1578.
[943] Cause of. 1578.
[944] Faultes I confesse, as no man liues without. 1578.
[945] I put thee, omitted. 1578.
[946] Thing to me is comfort. 1563.
[947] G. Ferrers. N.
[948] At S. Albane’s when he toke K. Henry prisoner, he was. 1578.
[949] Compare the remainder of this induction with the reading of the editions of 1559, 63, at p. 166, n. 2.
[950] An. Dom. 1460 added. 1571. Earl of Rutland, an infant, cruelly murdered, Anno 1460. 1578.
[951] Quoth. 1578.
[952] Trust not in chance, in whom. N.
[953] Of foolish men. N.
[954] O fooles most brute, that. 1578.
[955] How now? why dost thou, Baldwin, hide. 1578.
[956] See this poore boy, whom by the hand I lead. 1578.
[957] With bloud, and teares halinge his body staynd. 1578.
Rychard I am Plantagenet by name,
Whilom of Yorke the duke of worthy fame. 1573.
[959] Of duke Edmond, thirde. 1578.
[960] Engendred me of Anne, whose course. 1559, 63. This reading is restored to supply sense to the text. The subsequent editions have: Engendred mee, whereof the course.
[961] For when Edmond her brother dyed warde. 1578.
From Lionel, the third begotten sonne
Of kingly Edward, by descent I came
From Philip hight, his heire we first begun
The crowne as due to vs by right to clame:
And in the end we did obtaine the same,
She was sole heire.——N.
[963] Troublous. 1559. N. Troubles. 1563, 71. Troubles and daungers. 1578.
[964] And how by might, oft right. 1578.
[965] Duke Henry of Hereforde, called Bolenbrooke. 1578.
[966] Whan traytour like he. 1578.
[967] Kild him in prison, vsurped. 1578.
[968] The crowne by right came to Edmond Mortimer. 1578.
[969] And them of Lancaster. 1578.
[970] Houses. 1578.
And therefore thought good, to extirpe vs quight. 1578.
Against vs therefore he did all he might. N.
[972] To slay. N.
His cursed sonne ensued the father’s trade,
And kept my cosin guiltlesse in sure hold
For whom my father ful often did perswade,
With his allies and cousins, that they would
Their kinsman’s right mainteyn, and vphold,
And to depose by pollicy or power,
The heyre of him that was an vsurper. 1578.
[974] Whereof when Henry. 1578.
[975] Thys. 1559, 63, 71.
[976] Had heard, and knew of this conspiracye. 1578.
[977] Sayd that my father was the. 1578.
[978] French kyng hys ally. 1559, 63. French king Charles his alley. N.
And hyred by him to worke this trecherye,
For which at Hampton, as it came to passe,
His lyfe he lost, and there beheaded was. 1578.
[980] This. 1559.
[981] To, added. 1571.
Thus was the name of Mortimer extinct,
Whose right and title descended vnto me,
Being forst to lyue within a precinct,
For feare I would to other countries flee,
And so beeing at myne owne libertee,
Might haplye moue sedicion or strife,
For guilty hartes can leade no quiet lyfe. 1578.
[983] Whereby great frendes I had my part to take. 1578.
I by mariage,
Fowre fayre sonnes my yong wife to me bore,
Valiaunt. 1578.
[985] Brothers. 1578.
[986] As none of the kin had any time before. 1578.
[987] Were knights peerelesse. 1578.
—— Fortune’s frendly grace,
I first began to claime my lawful right,
And my chiefe foes with stoutnesse to deface. 1578.
[989] Al my hole force, I dayly did employ. 1578.
[990] The queene was wholy on hys syde. 1578.
[991] Stroke. 1559.
in Ireland I did byde,
Ful often driuen of force my head to hyde,
Yet through. 1578.
[993] This doutye duke most deare to king. 1578.
the queene her partie helde
Farre in the north, where ouermatcht with power,
My life I lost, in an vnlucky howre. 1578.
[995] Led, omitted. 1578.
[996] And, omitted. 1578.
[997] Got the. 1559, 78.
[998] Next I with kinsfolke. N.
I at the next was present in persone,
With my chiefe kin, whereas by one and one,
Our souldiers false withdrew away by night,
Vnto our foes and wee put all to flight. 1578.
[1000] Not. The text corrected by editions 1559 and 63. The others read: no.
[1001] Came I. 1559, 63.
[1002] My. 1559, 63. Make clayme. 1571. New claime to make. 1578.
[1003] In the kinge’s seate I boldly. 1578.
[1004] Clayming the place, whereat. 1578.
[1005] At last to my demaund agreed. 1578.
[1006] But sith Henry had raigned than so long. 1578.
[1007] And to thend to make my title strong. 1578.
[1008] My, misprint. 1571. Apparant heire of England they me. 1578. In each place heire apparant they me. N.
I sped me straight northward, whereas she lay,
Meaning by force to cause her to obay. 1578.
[1010] Bosworth. 1559.
She thereof warned, prepared a strong power,
And ere my men were altogether redye,
To Sandale came, where, in a dismal houre,
I like a beast, so rash was and so heddy
To trie fortune which alwaies is vnsteddy,
With thousands fiue of souldiers to assayle
The double number in campe to their auayle. 1578.
[1012] Th’infant. N.
whyle my pore infant
Scarse twelue yere olde, sought way himselfe to saue,
That cruel Clifford, that fel bloudy tyrant,
While the pore chyld with tears did mercy craue,
With dagger sharp his hart a sunder claue. 1578.
And set a crowne of paper theruppon,
Which for a sport he sent vnto the quene. 1578.
Which with a painted paper crowne thereon,
He for a present sent vnto the quene. N.
[1015] Might. 1559. To Yorke and set vp to be. 1578. To Yorke fast by, where that it might. N.
In some such place as theuis and traitors bene,
This mocke I had of fortune for rewarde,
After long hope that she wold me regard. 1578.
Wherfore, Baldwin, see that thou set her forth
With her slipper pranks so as they may be known,
And warne all princes wel. 1578.
[1018] Sede. 1578
[1019] The gaine no surer but as of dice throwen. 1578.
[1020] Far, omitted. 1578. N.
[1021] Wrestling. 1578. Striuing. N.
[1022] But God aboue that kingdomes set in frame. 1578.
[1023] Chance. 1578.
[1024] Warne lordes no wise to wade. 1578.
[1025] Cause, saue their countrie’s defence. 1578.
[1026] And foes. 1559, 63.
[1027] My long. 1578.
best than to tary time,
Low by the ground, than ouer high to clyme. 1578.
[1029] This. 1559, 63.
[1030] Quoth I. 1559, 63.
[1031] The nine and twenty daye. 1571.
[1032] Passage in brackets, added. 1571.
[1033] Now, added. 1571.
[1034] He ratleth out this rhime. 1578.
[1035] Lorde Clifforde for his extreame crueltie, came to a cruel, straunge, and sodaine death. 1578.
[1036] Anno 1461, added. 1571.
[1037] His fault should hide. 1578.
But sith pardon commeth by repentaunce,
Playnesse is best when truth is plainly tryde,
Open or hid, al faultes at length be spyed;
For couer fyer neuer so close within,
Yet out it will, and so will secret synne. 1578.
[1039] So brode. 1559, 63. Bruted and knowne abroade. 1578.
[1040] Cannot them reteyne. 1578.
[1041] Griefe, omitted. 1578.
[1042] Wherefore, Baldwin, write thou my. 1578.
[1043] Clifford I am that. 1578.
[1044] Craued. 1578.
[1045] My honour. 1559, 63, 71, 75. My fame, most. 1578.
[1046] Mercy. 1578.
[1047] I meane such wrath as works parental. 1578.
[1048] As these reuengers. 1578.
[1049] Know those people. 1578.
[1050] Which kyndle vs. 1578.
[1051] The father’s fault that wreake vpon. 1578.
[1052] To annoy. 1559, 63.
[1053] Friends for to destroy. N.
[1054] This caused me with bloudy. 1578.
[1055] A paper royal. 1559, 63, 71, 75.
The father’s corps, dead lying on the ground,
The neck I cut asunder with my sword,
The bleding head I pight, by way of borde,
Vpon a speare, with a white paper crowne,
And in great scorne I sent it to Yorke towne. 1578.
[1057] Cruel deeds. 1578.
[1058] Of open shame, or of some bloudy death. 1578.
[1059] Blustring. 1578.
[1060] Heades. 1559, 63.
For vengeance due doth sodaynly alight,
On cruel deedes the mischiefe to requite. 1578.
[1062] Fyght agaynst. 1559, 63. With this. N.
Agaynst Edward, duke Richard’s eldest son,
My death I caught not far. 1578.
[1064] T’euent. N.
To vent out heate traueiling in the sonne,
An headles arrowe percyd my throte boule,
Which parted straight my body from the soule. 1578.
[1066] His. 1578.
[1067] The lord Clifforde, either for heate or payne, putting of his gorget, sodainly with an arrowe (as some say) without an hedde, was striken into the throte, and incontinent rendered hys spirite, and the erle of Westmerland’s brother, and all his company almost were there slayn, at a place called Dintingdale, not far from Towton. This ende had he which slew the yong erle of Rutland, knelyng on his knees: whose yong sonne Thomas Clifforde was brought vp with a shepperd in poore habite, and dissimuled behauior, euer in feare to publishe his lignage or degre, till kyng Henry the vii. obtayned the croune and gat the diademe. Hall.
[1068] On the. 1559, 63.
[1069] To aske mercy at my last dying. 1578.
[1070] Wherefore, Baldwin, perswade the. 1578.
[1071] And. 1578.
[1072] To which they sayle through shame. 1559, 63, 71, 75.
[1073] To suffer endles payne. 1578.
[1074] Halleth. 1587. N.
[1075] Vnquyted left but had as. 1578.
[1076] Quod. 1559, 63.
[1077] Cruelty shewed to his young sonne by this mercilesse man, saue. 1578.
[1078] Destruction most part of the. 1578.
[1079] Richarde his. 1578.
[1080] Battaile at Towton in Yorkeshire, whereat besydes this Clifford, were slayne the earles. 1578.
[1081] Besydes mo then 3000 men, the. 1578.
[1082] Keepe the common course. 1578.
[1083] Caused the erles of Devonshire and Oxforde wyth dyuers other. 1559, 63.
[1084] Other of king Henrie’s parte, to. 1578.
[1085] He, omitted. 1578.
[1086] For thyther came those lordes with. 1578.
[1087] Which they lost, wherein most. 1578.
[1088] The army slayne. 1559. The slayne. 1563. Were slaine. 1578.
[1089] What may bee noted by his ende. 1578.
[1090] An. 1470, added. 1571.
[1091] Euer. 1559, 63. Nere was nor nere. N.
[1092] Stories alwayes be not true. 1578.
[1093] Added some with better grace. 1578.
[1094] This. 1578.
[1095] Or shew them so as they were in some dout. 1578.
[1096] The, omitted. N.
[1097] Wherfore, Baldwin, either speake thou vpryght. 1578.
[1098] Thou heardst of. N.
[1099] They’ill. N.
[1100] Ere. N.
[1101] The. 1571, 75, 78.
[1102] As guiltie lose my head. N.
[1103] Foemen. N.
[1104] The. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
[1105] To. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
[1106] Me also from office. 1578.
[1107] The earle of Warwicke, through mallice and grudge. 1578.
[1108] Sith. 1578.
[1109] Some greedy gulles did beare. 1578.
[1110] Murder, and mischiefe done. 1578.
[1111] To. 1578.
[1112] Swalowed. 1578.
[1113] This Typtofte’s. 1578.
[1114] Harry. 1559, 63.
[1115] Kidsdale, misprint. 1587.
[1116] The. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
[1117] The ded bodies of the erle and the marques were brought to London in a coffin, and before they should be buried, by the space of three dayes, they lay open visaged, in the cathedral church of S. Paule, to thintent that al men might euidently perceiue, that thei vnfainedly wer dedde least perauenture the common people hereafter, heryng of some dissmulyng person, to take on him the name of therle of Warwicke, thynkyng hym to be liuyng, might stirre a newe sedicion and excite an vnware rebellion. The common people saied that the kyng was not so iocound nor so ioyous, for the destruccion of therle, but he was more sorowful and dolorous for the death of the marques, whom bothe he knewe and it appered to other, to be inwardly his faithfull frend: for whose onely sake he caused bothe their bodies to be with their auncesters, solempnly entered at the priory of Bissam. Hall.
[1118] Date added. 1571.
[1119] So I. 1559, 63.
[1120] Had held. N.
[1121] In hold. N.
[1122] Matched. 1559, 63.
[1123] Allyed me. 1559, 63.
[1124] Power we dyd from. 1559, 63.
[1125] He to go to. 1559, 63.
[1126] The earle. 1559, 63, 71.
[1127] In the edition of 1563 the text is “lo towle,” which in the “Faultes escaped in the printing,” is corrected as above “to fowle.” In those of 1571, 75, 78, 87, and Niccols, the text is “lo foule.”
[1128] The earle. 1559, 63, 71.
[1129] Both at length wer slayne. 1559, 63.
[1130] Harten. 1559, 63.
[1131] Nere. N.
[1132] But we ere lucke. N.
[1133] With force and number were. N.
[1134] Ere. M.
[1135] Souerayne. 1578.
[1136] Glory I was not bent. 1559, 63. Or good was I nere bent. N.
[1137] Passed. 1559, 63.
[1138] Olde. 1559, 63.
[1139] Duely. 1559, 63.
[1140] Paimentes wer. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
[1141] And holpe vp Henry the better. 1559, 63. Vp Henry better. 1571, 75, 78. And holpe king Henrie better. N.
[1142] Weale. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
[1143] Without signature, and therefore given to Baldwin.
[1144] Quod. 1559, 63.
[1145] In the fight. 1559, 63.
[1146] Cruelly. 1571, 75, 78.
[1147] Date added 1571.
[1148] Lycketh. 1559, 63.
[1149] May, omitted. 1578.
[1150] Soust. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
[1151] Doust. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
[1152] Unopprest. 1559.
[1153] Or. 1559.
[1154] To the. 1559, 63.
[1155] My. 1559.
[1156] Theyr. 1559, 63.
[1157] Time. 1559, 63.
[1158] Fro. 1571, 75, 78, 87.
[1159] She. 1559, 63.
[1160] In edition 1563 among the faults escaped in the printing “for” is corrected to “from;” in all the subsequent editions the erroneous text is followed.
[1161] Without signature, and attributed to Baldwin.
[1162] Date added. 1571.
[1163] Baldwin, with teares I. 1578. Baldwin I do thee. N.
[1164] Though vnneth. 1559, 63, 78.
[1165] Maketh. 1559, 63.
[1166] Not whych I drank of. 1559, 63. Not that I. N.
[1167] Not which I drancke, but wherein I was dround. 1578. I was drown’d. N.
[1168] Was creature. 1559, 63. Man was. N.
[1169] Misprinted “preferred,” and corrected among the faults escaped in edition 1563, but the erroneous text is continued in the other editions.
[1170] Second childe. 1578.
[1171] Vncle. 1559, 63.
[1172] Begot faire Philip hight, whom. N.
[1173] Vnfylde. 1563.
[1174] The second Iohn who lost in youth hys lyfe. 1559, 63.
[1175] Was Glocester’s duke, N.
[1176] Did, added. 1571.
[1177] Edward the quarell styrd agayne. 1578.
[1178] Wan. 1578.
That litle passinge on them that brought him in,
Forgat his frendes, and set at naught his kin. 1578.
[1180] His dealinge ingrate. 1578.
From prison to enlarge Henry, the sely kinge,
Him to restore to kingdome. 1578.
[1182] To his ill practise the sooner to encline. 1578.
Because the king to me was so vnkinde,
No canker sure, soft flesh doth fret so sore. 1578.
[1184] Wickedness. 1559.
[1185] By. 1559, 63.
[1186] Ere. N.
[1187] My sire. N.
[1188] We, omitted. 1571, 78.
[1189] To. 1559, 63.
[1190] Not for the cares which thereto bene annext. 1578.
[1191] That. 1578.
[1192] Raging. 1578, 87.
[1193] Haue, misprint. 1563, 71.
[1194] That some. N.
[1195] Giue. N.
[1196] On. 1571, 78.
[1197] Prophecies. 1559, 63.
[1198] Beleeu’d to losse. N.
[1199] To. 1559.
[1200] And she being dead I. N.
[1201] Of, wanting. 1563.
[1202] That then my. N.
[1203] To wed. N.
[1204] Hys hayer. 1559, 63. N.
[1205] Might. 1559. N.
[1206] Bereue my lyfe by any. 1578.
[1207] Nay butcher I may rightly say. 1578.
[1208] Tower, commaundinge all away. 1578.
[1209] In the xvii yere of king Edward, there fel a sparcle of priuy malice betwen the king and his brother the duke of Clarence: whether it rose of old grudges before tyme passed, or were it newly kyndled and set a fyre by the quene or her bloud, which were euer mistrustyng and priuely barkyng at the kynge’s lignage, or were he desirous to reigne after his brother: to men that haue thereof made inquisicion, of suche as were of no small authoritie in those daies, the certayntie therof was hyd, and coulde not truely be disclosed, but by coniectures, which as often deceyue the imaginacions of fantastical folke, as declare truthe to them in their conclusion. The fame was that the kyng or the quene, or bothe, sore troubled with a folysh prophesye, and by reason therof began to stomacke and greuously to grudge against the duke. The effect of which was, after kyng Edward should reigne, one whose firste letter of his name should be a G. and because the deuel is wont with suche wytchcraftes, to wrappe and illaqueat the myndes of men, which delyte in such deuelyshe fantasyes, they sayd afterward that that prophesie lost not his effect, when after king Edward, Glocester vsurped hys kyngdome. Other allege this to be the cause of his death: that of late, the olde rancor betwene them beyng newly reuiued (the which betwene no creatures can be more vehement then betwene bretheren, especially when it is fermely radicate) the duke beyng destitute of a wife, by the meanes of lady Margaret duches of Burgoyn, hys syster, procured to haue the lady Marye, doughter and heyre to duke Charles her husbande, to bee geuen to hym in matrimony: whiche mariage kyng Edward (enuyenge the felicitie of hys brother) bothe agayne sayed and disturbed. Thys priuy displeasure was onely appeased, but not inwardly forgotten, nor outwardly forgeuen, for that notwythstandyng a seruaunt of the duke’s was sodainly accused (I can not saie of truth, or vntruely suspected by the duke’s enemies) of poysonyng, sorcery, or inchaunmente, and thereof condempned, and put to take the paynes of death. The duke, whiche might not suffer the wrongfull condemnacion of hys man (as he in hys conscience adiudged) nor yet forbere, nor paciently suffer the vniust handelyng of hys trusty seruaunt, dayly dyd oppugne and wyth yll woordes murmur at the doyng thereof. The kyng muche greued and troubled with hys brother’s dayly querimonye, and contynuall exclamacion, caused hym to be apprehended, and cast into the Towre, where he beyng taken and adjudged for a traytor, was priuely drowned in a but of Malmesey. Hall.
[1210] All, omitted. 1578.
[1211] T’eschue. N.
[1212] Like blasts of winde which. 1578.
[1213] Without signature, by W. Baldwin.
[1214] Be now come. 1578.
[1215] Fowerth hys raygne. 1559, 63.
[1216] And some other day when your leasure will beste serue, let us mete here altogether. 1578.
[1217] Quod. 1559, 63.
[1218] In his name, the true copy wherof, as hee wrote the same, I haue here readye to be red. 1578.
[1219] The fourth, added. 1571.
[1220] xxiij. 1559, 63.
[1221] And yeres xxii bare scepter ryall. 1578.
[1222] Et ecce. 1578.
[1223] God in the world vniuersall. 1578.
[1224] But a. 1559, 63.
[1225] Great felicity. 1578.
[1226] With me had. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
[1227] As, restored from the correction of the press, ed. 1563.
[1228] Nought els. 1578.
[1229] Ye. 1578.
[1230] Whan this was said, euery man tooke hys leave of other, and departed: and I the better to acquyte my charge, recorded and noted all such matters as they had willed me.
Such is the conclusion of the edition of 1559 which is noted in that of 1563 by there immediately following:
Thus endeth the first parte.
The new legends, in the edition of 1563, form a second part, whereto is prefixed the following induction, which is abridged in the edition of 1571, according to the text of the next page.
The seconde parte of the Mirrour for Magistrates. William Baldwyn to the reader. The tyme beynge cum, whan (according to our former appoyntment) we should meete together agayne to deuyse vpon the tragicall affayres of our English rulers, I with suche storyes as I had procured and prepared, went to the place wherein we had debated the former parte. There founde I the prynter, and all the rest of our frendes and furderers assembled and tarying for vs, save maister Ferrers, who shortly after according to hys promys came thyther. Whan we had blamed hym for hys long tarying, he satisfied vs fully with this reasonable excuse. “I haue been letted,” quoth he, “dyuers wayes, but chyeflye in taryeng for suche tragedyes, as many of our frendes at myne instauns vndertoke to discours, wherof I am sure you wyll be right glad: for moe wits are better then one, and diuersity of deuice is alway most plesante. And although I have presentlye brought but a fewe, becaus no moe are redye, yet shall you be sure hereafter to have all the rest, which notable men haue vndertaken: wherof sum are half doen, sum more, sum less, sum scarce begun, which maketh me thynke that the dyuersytye of braynes in divisyng, is lyke the sundrynes of beastes in engendryng: for sum wyttes are readye, and dispatch many matters spedilye, lyke the conye which lyttereth every moneth: sum other are slowe lyke the olyfaunt, skarce delyueryng any matter in x yeares. I disprayse neyther of these byrthes, for both be naturall: but I commende most the meane, whiche is neyther to slowe nor to swyft, for that is lion-lyke, and therfore most noble. For the ryght poet doth neyther through haste bring furth swift feble rabettes, neither doth he weary men in lookyng for hys strong ioyntles olyphantes: but in reasonable tyme he bryngeth furth a perfect and liuely lion, not a bear whelp that must be longar in lyckyng than in breedynge. And yet I knowe manye that dooe hyghly lyke that lumpysh deliuery. But every man hath hys gyft, and the diversitie of our mindes maketh every thing to be liked. And therfore while the oliphantes are in bredyng (to whom I haue therfore geuen the latter storyes) I haue brought you such as are allready doen, to be publyshed in the mean season, wherin there nedeth no furder labour, but to place them in due order. Loe you, Baldwyne, here is of myne owne the duke of Somerset slain at S. Albons with other which I promysed, whom I wysh you shoulde place last: there is also Shore’s wyfe, trimly handled by master Churchyard, which I pray you place where you thynk most conuenient. Here are other also of other mens, but they are rabettes. Do with them as you thynk best. I would tary with a good wyll and helpe you in the order, save that my busines is great and weighty, but I know you can do it wel inough, and therfore, tyl we meet agayne I will leaue you.” Than deliuered he the tragedyes vnto me, and departed. Dyuers of the rest lykyng hys deuyse, vsed the lyke maner: for the prynter delyvered vnto me the lord Hastynges penned by maister Dolman, and kyng Rychard the third, compiled by Frauncis Segars. “Then,” sayd I “wel my masters sith you thinke yt good to charge me with the order, I am contented therwith: for as you haue doen, so have I lykewyse procured sum of my frendes to ayd vs in our labour, for master Sackvyle hath aptly ordered the duke of Buckkyngham’s oracion, and master Cavyl the black smythe’s, and other.” “I pray you,” quoth one of the cumpany, “let vs heare them.” “Nay soft,” quoth I, “we wyl take the cronycles, and note theyr places, and as they cum so will we orderly reade them al.” To thys they all agreed. Then one tooke the cronicle whom therfore we made, and call the reder, and he began to rede the story of prince Edward called the fift king of that name: and whan he came to the apprehending of the lord Riuers: “Stay ther, I pray you,” quoth I, “for here is hys complaynt: for the better vnderstanding wherof you must ymagin that he was accompanyed with the lord Richard Graye, and with Hault and Clappam, whose infortunes he bewayleth after this manner.”
[1231] The. 1578.
[1232] Anno 1483, added. 1571.
[1233] Cause. 1578.
[1234] That one Baldwin by help of. 1578.
[1235] Fallen. 1563, 71.
[1236] We stert. 1578.
[1237] Preaced forth among the ruful. 1578.
[1238] Attended. 1563.
[1239] Moved. 1578.
[1240] That. 1563.
[1241] This stanza omitted. N.
[1242] Theyr, restored from 1563. The others read: my.
[1243] The. N.
[1244] Wise and welthy. 1578.
[1245] Th’abuse. N.
[1246] For, omitted in the text, 1563, but corrected by the faults escaped. The erroneous text followed. 1571, 75, 78.
[1247] The. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1248] The. N.
[1249] Enmies. 1578.
[1250] Espoused Bedford duchesse. N.
[1251] He ’spous’d. N.
[1252] So great. N.
[1253] Bene. 1578.
[1254] In. 1578.
[1255] In myne eye very. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1256] Sire. N.
[1257] In. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1258] The. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1259] The. 1563, 71.
[1260] Haue. 1578.
[1261] Foaded. 1563.
[1262] Nor. 1563.
[1263] Kiddesdale. 1587. N. The Northamptonshire men with diuers of the northe-men by them procured, in this fury made them a capitayne, and called hym Robyn of Riddisdale. Hall. Robert Hilliard who named himselfe Robin of Ridsdale. Stowe.
[1264] My. 1578.
[1265] Nor. N.
[1266] Awaked. 1578.
[1267] An. 1563.
[1268] For, omitted. N.
[1269] That or we must with other’s bloud. N.
[1270] Clowne. N.
[1271] Naturall. 1563. Owne. N.
[1272] To. misprint. 1563.
[1273] Of spryte. 1563. N.
[1274] Was. 1578.
[1275] Defende. 1563, 71.
[1276] Among the faults corrected in ed. 1563 ‘frendes’ is altered to ‘fyendes.’ In this instance it is, perhaps, best to continue the uncorrected text of the subsequent editions.
[1277] In faults corrected altered from ‘our’ to ‘your,’ ed. 1563. False reading preserved, 1571, 75, 78, 87, and N.
[1278] The exces. 1563, 71.
[1279] Cry, ah. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1280] Proudest. 1563.
[1281] Loudest. 1563.
[1282] The. 1571.
[1283] Eyther prooue. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1284] Never. 1563, 71, 76, 78.
[1285] They have. 1563, 71.
[1286] I blest me, rose. N.
[1287] Them, corrected by ed. 1563, 75, 78. Him, 1571, 87. N.
[1288] Theyr, omitted. N.
[1289] To agree. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1290] Where after we had a while in 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1291] At dynner, the duke of Glocester sent a dyshe from his owne table to the lord Ryuers, praiyng him to bee of good chere, and all shoulde be well: he thanked him and prayed the messenger to beare it to his nephiewe the lorde Richard with like wordes whom he knewe to haue nede of comfort, as one to whom suche aduersite was straunge, but he hymselfe had bene all his daies ennured therwith, and therefore could beare it the better. But for al this message the duke of Gloucester sent the lorde Ryuers, the lord Richard, and sir Thomas Vaughan, and sir Richarde Hawte, into the north parties into diuerse prisones, but at last, al came to Pomfret where they all foure were beheaded without iudgement. Hall.
[1292] Without signature: supposed by W. Baldwin.
[1293] Had. 1563.
[1294] Words added. 1571.
[1295] The 13 of June, Anno 1483. added. 1571.
[1296] Loanes. 1563, 87. Loyns 1571.
I am that Hastings, whose to hasty death
They blame that know wherefore I lost my breath,
Wyth others fearinge least my headlesse name
Bee wrongde, by partiall bruite of flatteringe fame:
Hearinge, O Baldwin, that thou mean’st to penne,
The lyues, and fals of English noblemen,
Myselfe here present, do present to thee,
My life, my fal, and forced destenye. 1575, 78. N.
[1298] Drown’d. 1575, 78. N.
[1299] Take this for. 1575, 78. N.
[1300] Distracteth. 1563, 71.
[1301] Infecteth. 1563, 71.
[1302] Dowteth. 1563.
[1303] Tyckle, from correction of faults escaped. 1563. Title. 1571.
[1304] Stanzas 3, 4, and 5, omitted 1575, 78, and by Niccols.
[1305] The heauens hye and earthly vale belowe. 1575, 78. N.
[1306] So to me. 1575, 78. N.
[1307] Make. N.
[1308] Wholye. 1563.
[1309] Rayseth. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
See here the difference of a noble minde,
Some vertue raiseth, some by vice haue climde. N.
[1311] Within themselues their. 1578. N.
[1312] Endeth hit. 1563, 71, 75.
[1313] Or how may that, that hath no end, be vndone? 1575, 78. N.
[1314] Thother. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.
[1315] Flatterie, so soone they rue. N.
[1316] Fro. N.
[1317] Discended. 1563. Which once stept downe. 1578. N.
[1318] Rayseth. 1575, 78.
[1319] To excuse. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1320] Helpe. N.
[1321] As death in later. N.
[1322] Shineth. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1323] Or. 1578. N.
[1324] Pleasing. 1575, 78. N.
[1325] That. 1575, 78. N.
[1326] These faults except, if so my life thou skan. 1575, 78. N.
[1327] So kind to all and so. N.
[1328] Rule. 1575, 78. N.
[1329] Chaunging. 1575, 78. N.
[1330] Admir’d through Christendome. N.
[1331] My prince’s brother did him then forgo. 1575, 78. N.
[1332] Lynked. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1333] Nor. 1575. 78. N.
[1334] Beare any other. N.
[1335] Awayt. 1563, 71, 75, 78. W’await. N.
[1336] Further. N.
[1337] And vse best meanes Edward in to bring. N.
[1338] Tide, to bar. N.
[1339] Sayles, misprint. 1587.
[1340] Surginge. 1575, 78. N.
[1341] Erst mought. 1563. Erst might. 1571. Late might. 1575, 78. N.
[1342] Then ghastly Greekes erst brought to. 1575, 78. N.
[1343] Maye. 1563, 75, 78. N. Might. 1571.
[1344] Might. N.
[1345] Myght. 1578. N.
[1346] That. 1575, 78.
[1347] Heauye. 1575, 78. N.
[1348] A fleete. N.
[1349] Flyeth. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1350] Breakes. N.
[1351] Syngeth, is the text of 1563, and corrected to ‘swimmeth,’ as a fault escaped. It stands singeth, 1571, 87. Swyndgthe, 1575, 78. Swindg’th. N.
[1352] Heauy. 1575, 78. N.
[1353] Swyne, text of 1563, corrected in faults escaped as above. The false reading repeated in all the five subsequent editions.
[1354] Hare. 1575, 78. N.
[1355] Pursueth, before she flerteth. 1563, 71, 75, 78. Flert. N.
[1356] Pricketh. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.
[1357] Afore. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1358] Stayeth. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1359] Agaynst. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1360] Reserued. 1563, 71, 75. Reserues. N.
[1361] Welcom’d by. N.
[1362] Suffyseth. 1563, 71, 75, 78. Sufficeth say. N.
[1363] My prince’s foe. 1575, 78. N.
[1364] Spyced. 1563. Staind. 1575, 78. N.
[1365] Bloudy for warre. 1578. N.
[1366] Liue. N.
[1367] Arms. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.
[1368] Glocester, Clarence, I and Dorset slewe. N.
[1369] His bones, shall broile for bloud which he hath spilt. N.
[1370] Deadly. N.
[1371] Attaynteth 1563, 71, 75, 78. Attaint’th. N.
[1372] Wicked. N.
[1373] As. 1575, 78. N.
[1374] All men. 1575, 78. Of men. N.
[1375] Whoe fyrst dyd such. 1563.
[1376] As they merite well who do men’s liues preserue. 1575, 78. N.
[1377] If those therefore, 1575, 78. N.
[1378] Is he. 1575, 78. N.
[1379] Old is the practise of such bloudy strife. 1575, 78. N.
[1380] Abhorreth. 1575, 78. N.
[1381] Loue. 1575, 78. N.
[1382] ‘To cloake thy covert,’ 1563.
[1383] Difeldasd. 1563, 71.
[1384] My, wanting. 1563, 75, 78. N.
[1385] Troubled. 1575, 78. N.
[1386] Wanteth. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.
[1387] Royall. 1575, 78. N.
[1388] Enfants. 1575, 78.
[1389] Insaciate. 1575, 78. N.
Onely because our prince displeasde we sawe
With him, we slue him straight before all lawe. 1575, 78. N.
[1391] The 37th stanza first inserted in ed. 1575, and only repeated in 1578, and Niccols.
[1392] Before. 1575, 78. N.
[1393] The. 1563, 75, 78. N.
[1394] Soareth. 1563, 75, 78. N.
[1395] To thothers. 1575, 78. N.
[1396] Mine onely trust. 1575, 78. N.
[1397] Loued. 1571, 75.
[1398] The, misprint. 1587.
[1399] Least. 1571.
[1400] So. 1571.
[1401] Soone, not yet to soone mistrust. 1575, 78. N.
[1402] Twyneth betwyxt, and steareth. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1403] Loveth. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.
In frendship soueraigne it is as mithridate
Thy frend to loue as one whome thou mayst hate. 1575, 78. N.
[1405] The infamous. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.
[1406] Light. 1575, 78. N.
[1407] Hap me without his. 1575, 78. N.
[1408] Tickle. 1575, 78. N.
[1409] The. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.
[1410] When as by no meanes frendship. 1575, 78. N.
[1411] Force behold they me assailde. 1575, 78. N.
[1412] No place is. 1575, 78.
[1413] My bloud must repay. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.
[1414] Parted. 1563, 75, 78. N.
[1415] Or better mynded. 1575, 78. N.
[1416] The message and other incidents, in the remainder of this legend, are closely versified from Hall’s Chronicle, but too long to be given here. Compare with reign of Edward the Fift.
[1417] Cannot matche. 1575, 78.
[1418] Construe. N.
[1419] Thinke appall’d. 1575, 78. Might thinke appall’d. N.
[1420] Pledeth. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.
[1421] Seruyce. 1563.
[1422] Might. N.
[1423] Fayned 1575, 78. N.
[1424] He. 1563.
[1425] Meanes. 1575, 78. N.
[1426] God didst suffer so. 1575, 78. N.
[1427] Heady. 1563.
[1428] For that they are neare to. 1575, 78. N.
[1429] Hyghest. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.
[1430] Laughed. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.
[1431] The excesse. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.
[1432] Hane. 1587.
[1433] Foule, misprint. 1587.
Had not the Troyans hares foolishe forthright eyen?
But since the time was come that I should dye. 1575, 78. N.
[1435] Was. 1575, 78. N.
[1436] Nay. N.
[1437] Within the which I. 1575, 78.
[1438] Thy. 1587.
[1439] ‘Now,’ restored from list of faults escaped in ed. 1563. It is omitted in every edition.
[1440] Tending 1571, 87.
[1441] Doe neuer care. 1575, 78. N.
[1442] The passage from the line beginning “That twinckling sterres,” to the one ending “at the poorest gates,” (l. 4, st. 92, p. 305,) which commences fo. Cx and concludes page b, of fo. Cxiii, forming sheet O in the edition of 1563, was, by some error, omitted in the editions of 1571 and 1587. Perhaps the edition of 1571 was printed from a copy of the preceding one, wanting that sheet, and that of 1587 taken from the reprint, without the deficiency being discovered. The above text, for the lines restored, is from the edition of 1578.
[1443] Taxe. 1563.
[1444] It, misprint. 1578. N.
[1445] But euen last fyne. 1563.
[1446] He. N.
[1447] Stately. N.
[1448] Might. N.
[1449] For he. 1563.
[1450] Ye. 1563.
[1451] That thus maddeth his. 1563.
[1452] Is, misprint. 1578.
[1453] Furrwed, misprint. 1578.
[1454] What earned they, whoe me. 1563.
[1455] Might. N.
[1456] Iohn Baptists’ dishe. 1563.
[1457] His. 1563.
[1458] Downe tottreth whoe. 1563.
[1459] Of. 1563.
[1460] No. 1563.
[1461] Thyne. 1563.
[1462] From dunghill couche vpsterte. 1563.
[1463] Resollve. 1563.
[1464] Hit dissolueth. 1563.
[1465] And. 1563.
[1466] Fleeteth. 1563, 75.
[1467] Wynd doth. 1563.
[1468] Then fed they fame by. 1563.
[1469] Nought. 1575, 78.
[1470] Spare his quyted fame. 1563.
[1471] Might. N.
[1472] End of the passage omitted. See note, p. 296.
[1473] By this sloape. 1575, 78. N.
[1474] Whose hasty death, if it doe any. 1575, 78. N.
[1475] Her, misprint. 1587.
[1476] The aged. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.
[1477] Godly. 1575, 78. N.
[1478] To engraue. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.
Who spareth not speaking, with danger of his bloud:
Yet, loe, this noble lord did thinke it good
To cleare the innocent, not to spare to speake,
Although his shoulders with his bloud should reake. 1575, 78. N.
[1480] Who. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.
[1481] Seruice honour to. 1575, 78. N.
[1482] Tracke. 1575, 78. N.
[1483] Iohn Dolman. Ritson, in the Bibliographia Poetica, art. Dolman, has mentioned a manuscript note upon this legend describing it as “evidently the worst in the collection.” That note is written in a copy of the edition by Niccols, now in the possession of Mr. Heber, and being so quoted has given it more importance than it is worth; but, for the sake of juxta position, the whole is now given. “The stile of this legend, which is evidently the worst in the collection, and in this edition much alter’d from the three former publications of it, convinced me the author of it was not Drayton. By the second edition of these poems, printed A. 1563, this poem appears to have been penned by Maister Dolman.” Whatever credit may be given to this writer as a critic, his statement is too erroneous to be of any value, as the principal alterations made by Dolman are inserted in the edition of 1575, and the above signature is not to be found in that of 1563, but first appears in 1571.
[1484] Q. 1563.
[1485] Purposed with him selfe to. 1563.
[1486] This celebrated poem was reprinted in Mrs. Cooper’s Muse’s Library, 1738, from the edition of 1610. By Capell in the Prolusions, 1760. from those of 1563 and 71, with the text modernized. And also by Warton in the History of English Poetry, 1781, Vol. III. from the edition of 1610, who adopted most of the emendations of Capell. Also, in Anderson’s Poets, Vol. I. 1793; from the first edition.
[1487] In two copies of the edition of 1563 is the following variation. In the title one has “The Induction:” the other “Mayster Sackuille’s Induction.”
[1488] Hastning. N.
[1489] This line was also altered in the first edition while at press, as in one copy the reading is,
“The tapets torne and euery tree downe blowen:”
and is uniformly repeated in the subsequent editions, which also adopt the running title of “Mayster Sackuille’s Induction,” following the copy where the alteration to “tree” appears, though the head title conforms to the other copy. It therefore remains uncertain which was intended as the correction. “Bloom” is the reading preferred by Capell and Warton, and the context appears to confirm the adoption. In a preceding line the blustering blasts of winter are said to have bared the trees, and the poet goes on to describe that the cold had pierced the green, had rent and overthrown the mantles of the groves, had torn the tapets, or tapistry, and blown down every bloom. In this picture there is not any thing extravagant, or beyond the usual effects of winter, whereas were every tree down blown, it would amount to a hurricane, and not to the common decay of nature despoiling the earth of the flowers wherewith it was clad by summer, and as described by the poet in the following stanza. J. H.
I would prefer “tree” notwithstanding. Bloom applies to spring, not autumn. E. B.
[1490] Walk. Capell.
[1491] The remainder of this stanza and the next omitted by Capell. In Warton the omission includes also the three following stanzas.
[1492] Night’s black chare. N. Nightys chair. Capell.
[1493] Leafe. Cooper.
[1494] Beams. Warton.
[1495] Bright starres. N. Nightys stars. Capell.
[1496] Omitted by Warton.
[1497] This. 1563. Capell.
[1498] Furth from her iyen. 1563. Capell, Warton.
[1499] ‘And,’ restored from ed. 1563. So Capell.
[1500] Swollen her eyes. Capell.
[1501] Aparte 1563.
[1502] Betime. 1563. Capell, Warton.
[1503] The infernall. 1563, 71. Capell.
[1504] Lethe’s. Capell, Warton.
[1505] Thing. Capell.
[1506] The next eight stanzas omitted by Warton.
[1507] Calstell. 1571, 87.
[1508] Gathered spirites. 1563.
[1509] T’auale. N.
[1510] Spirits. 1563, 71.
[1511] ‘Stike’ is altered to ‘syke’ in the list of faults escaped 1563, a correction now first adopted.
[1512] Iyen. 1563. Eyen. Capell.
[1513] Shewe. 1563.
[1514] Fortune. 1563, 71. Capell.
[1515] Silly. 1563.
[1516] Capell suggests reading ‘be bold.’
[1517] World’s certainty. 1571, 75, 78.
[1518] Paced. 1563.
[1519] Imbraced. 1563.
[1520] Traced. 1563.
[1521] Trauayle end. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1522] Arose. 1563.
[1523] And. 1571, 87. N.
[1524] A dreadfull lothly. N.
[1525] The ayer. 1563. I’the air. Capell.
[1526] Pestilent. 1563. Pestlent. 1571, 75, 78, 87. Noysome. N. Noysom vapours. Warton.
[1527] Jer. 1578.
[1528] Tost. Capell.
[1529] The, omitted. 1571, 75, 78, 87. N.
[1530] Shoulders. 1563.
[1531] Full dayntlye would he fare. 1563. Capell.
[1532] But. Capell. Warton.
[1533] The, omitted. N.
[1534] That chance. Warton. Capell.
[1535] Esteemed. Warton. Capell.
[1536] Broken. 1563. Capell. Warton.
[1537] But, an’ the. Warton. Capell.
[1538] His, omitted. N. Her. Capell.
[1539] Neuer. 1563, 71.
[1540] Sometimes. Warton.
[1541] Bread. Warton.
[1542] O. Capell. Warton.
[1543] Ne. 1571, 75, 78.
[1544] Shrinkt. N.
[1545] Glittering. 1571.
[1546] Look’d. Capell. Warton.
[1547] Kings. 1563.
[1548] His kings, his princes, peers. Capell. Warton.
[1549] Stanzas 59, 60, and 61, omitted by Capell and Warton.
[1550] Trebery, corrected to Treby, in faults escaped, ed. 1563. The error uniformly continued in every subsequent edition.
[1551] Thebes too I saw. Capell. Warton.
[1552] God. 1571, 87. N.
[1553] ‘Perfore,’ ed. 1563. The others have ‘perforce.’ A similar line in the legend of Lord Hastings, see stanza 27, l. 2, p. 284.
[1554] O Troy, Troy, Troy; amended by Capell and repeated by Warton.
[1555] ‘Vpspring,’ corrected by ed. 1563. So Capell and Warton. All the others read vprising.
[1556] Greek. Capell.
[1557] Liuelike. 1563.
[1558] My. 1571, 75, 78.
[1559] Boote. 1571, 75, 78.
[1560] The vnwonted. 1563, 71. Capell.
[1561] The ayer. 1563, 71. Capell.
[1562] Whils. 1571, 75, 78. Whiles. Capell.
[1563] Passed by. 1563, 71.
[1564] Instead of the 74th stanza the four following are substituted by Niccols, who has so closely imitated his author that Warton has given the first two stanzas as genuine.
Thence did we passe the three-fold emperie,
To th’ vtmost bounds, where Radamanthus raignes,
Where proud folke waile there woefull miserie,
Where dreadfull din of thousand dragging chaines,
And balefull shriekes of ghosts in deadly paines
Tortur’d eternally are heard most brim
Through silent shades of night so darke and dim.
From hence vpon our way we forward passe,
And through the groues and vncoth paths we goe,
Which leade vnto the Cyclops walles of brasse:
And where that maine-broad flood for aye doth floe,
Which parts the gladsome fields from place of woe,
Whence none shall euer passe t’Elizium plaine,
Or from Elizium euer turne againe.
With Sorrow for my guide, as there I stood,
A troope of men the most in armes bedight,
In tumult clustred ’bout both sides the flood;
’Mongst whom, who were ordaind t’eternall night,
Or who to blissefull peace and sweet delight
I wot not well, it seem’d that they were all
Such as by death’s vntimely stroke did fall.
Some headlesse were, some body, face and hands,
With shamefull wounds despoil’d in euery part.
Some strangled, some that dide in captiue bands,
Some smothred, drown’d, some stricken through the hart
With fatall steele, all drown’d in deadly smart:
Of hastned death, with shrikes, sobs, sighs and teares,
Did tell the woes of their forepassed yeares.
[1565] Pewed. 1571, 75, 78.
[1566] O. Capell.
[1567] Warton has given this stanza, in a note, as from the edition of 1559, but the Induction was first printed 1563.
[1568] Omitted by Warton.
[1569] The last four lines not in Warton.
[1570] Forlorne. Warton.
[1571] Layne. Warton.
[1572] In. 1563.
[1573] Warily. N.
[1574] Swaye. 1563.
[1575] And gayn. 1563.
[1576] The vnsuerty. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1577] Season. 1578.
[1578] That he him nere in. N.
[1579] Than. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1580] Liued. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1581] Wistand. N.
[1582] Matchlesse. N.
[1583] ‘O,’ added. 1587. N.
[1584] Crieth. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1585] Murderers. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1586] Traytours. 1571, 75, 78. N.
[1587] Auenge. N.
[1588] Suffereth. 1578. N.
[1589] The examples. 1563.
[1590] Murdered. 1578.
[1591] On. 1563.
[1592] Longer. N.
[1593] Folly. 1587. N.
[1594] Pressed. 1563.
[1595] Murders. N.
[1596] Gleluis. 1578.
[1597] Deepely graue. 1578.
[1598] Startlesse. 1571, 75, 78.
[1599] Grieved. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1600] Furth brought. 1563.
[1601] ‘Strayned’ is the reading of 1563. All the other editions have stayned.
[1602] By. 1563.
[1603] T’encrease. N.
[1604] Searcheth. 1563, 71 75, 78.
[1605] Foreyrked. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1606] Loth’d. N.
[1607] Agriefde. 1575, 78. Agrieud. N.
[1608] Sauag’d. N.
[1609] Never. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1610] So foule. N.
[1611] Nay. N.
[1612] Wealaway. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1613] Nay. N.
[1614] Could tourne. 1563.
[1615] Nay. N.
[1616] Hard to. 1563.
[1617] Cursed case. 1763.
[1618] Sillye. 1563. N.
[1619] That. 1563.
[1620] Basely. N.
[1621] Count’st. N.
[1622] Inconstancye. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1623] The vnstable. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1624] Recur’d. N.
[1625] Ben. N.
[1626] Livedst. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1627] They, misprint. 1587.
[1628] Might. N.
[1629] Heauens. N.
[1630] Mate. 1575, 78. N.
[1631] Whych. 1563.
[1632] Loved. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1633] And every. 1563.
[1634] Sown’d. N.
[1635] Lyeth. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1636] Rufull. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1637] Was his. 1578.
[1638] Spirites. 1563.
[1639] Thy. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1640] Gevest. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1641] Trone despyse. 1563.
[1642] That. 1563.
[1643] The vnhappy. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1644] ‘Place,’ reading of 1563. Day. 1571, 75, 78, 87. N.
[1645] Vouchsafe. N.
[1646] Shalt thou not. 1563.
[1647] The eternall. 1563, 71 75, 78.
[1648] May. 1563.
[1649] And. 1563.
[1650] Halfe, wanting. 1563.
[1651] Thy. 1563.
[1652] ‘Hugie,’ the reading of 1563. Huge. 71, 75, 78, 87. Dolefull. N.
[1653] Thy daughter strucken with the leprosie. N.
[1654] Graule. 1571, 75, 78. Groule. N.
[1655] Lyved. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1656] Whan. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1657] Bidden. N.
[1658] Mishap. 1578.
[1659] By. 1563, 71, 75.
[1660] Initials added 1571. T. Saxuill. N.
[1661] Q. 1563.
[1662] Sayd one. 1578.
[1663] Q. 1563.
[1664] Q. 1563. Quod. 1575.
[1665] My thynke. 1563, 71, 75.
[1666] Q. 1563.
[1667] Sayd one. 1578.
[1668] Other hand. 1563.
[1669] I say, beware. N.
[1670] Mule’s. 1587.
[1671] Though Juuenal so be, that. 1563.
[1672] That doth make. N.
[1673] Maketh. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1674] Ere. N.
[1675] And therefore lothe we taunters. 1563.
[1676] Whose minde thereby to. 1563.
[1677] Amend. 1563.
[1678] To guyde. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1679] Moe. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1680] The affections of the wycked sorte. 1563.
Theyr sinnes, all hate to heare them touched,
Howe covertly so ever they be couched. 1563.
[1682] Th’intent. N.
[1683] Is godly. 1563.
[1684] From. N.
[1685] Doubtfull. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1686] Well may. 1578.
[1687] Which rymed that whych made full many mourne. 1563.
[1688] The kynge himselfe of. 1563.
[1689] His faultors faultes. 1563.
[1690] Was. 1571, 75, 78.
[1691] The chyefe was Catesby whom. 1563.
[1692] Whom I did call. N.
[1693] Tyll he vsurped the crowne, he. 1563.
[1694] So many thousandes as they have destroyed. 1563.
[1695] Laweles dealynges al men dyd. 1563.
[1696] Pessima. 1571, 75, 78.
[1697] Quis vetat? None, save clymers stil in ferum, 1563.
[1698] Satyr. 1563.
[1699] Who rudely named were. 1563.
[1700] Me wyth most haynous traytrous cryme. 1563.
[1701] And strangled fyrst in. 1563. And strangled then in. N.
[1702] Ore. N.
[1703] And so sore. 1578.
This wicked iudgement vexed me so sore
That I exclamed agaynst. 1563.
[1705] The ravenyng dog. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1706] The rat lord Ratclyve. 1563.
[1707] Touch thinges which they wish. 1563.
[1708] No flatterer, no bolsterer of vyce. 1563.
[1709] From. N.
[1710] Vnto. 1563.
[1711] An, misprint. 1587.
[1712] The heauens hye. 1563.
He must (as she had) have one onlye iye,
Regarde of truth, that nought maye leade awrye. 1563.
[1714] And that no power or fansie do him force. 1563.
[1715] Must also. 1563.
[1716] Bruse. N.
[1717] To heauen thereto to feede and rest. 1563.
[1718] Of skyll and hope. 1563.
[1719] That (than) al the ioyes which worldly wyts desyre. 1563.
[1720] He must be also nymble. 1563.
[1721] The. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1722] Thinges notable he. 1563. Impart he. 1571, 75, 78.
[1723] These propertyes yf I had well consydered. 1563.
[1724] From the stormy blast. 1563.
[1725] Bin cast. N.
[1726] But trusting vaynely to the tyrauntes. 1563. Trust vnto a tyrant’s. 1571, 75, 78.
[1727] Had bene allowed plea at any barre. 1563.
[1728] Ryght. 1563.
[1729] Tyrants t’is. N.
[1730] That with the lewde save this no order was. 1563.
[1731] Where this is. 1563.
[1732] Or. 1563.
[1733] Their libertyes. 1563.
[1734] This auncient freedome ought. 1563.
[1735] Of slaunderers iust lawes. 1563.
[1736] Seemed euel sayd. 1563.
[1737] Foolyshe. 1563.
[1738] To abase. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1739] Of traytrous actes abhord of God. 1563.
[1740] They arraynde and staynde me with that shameful crime. 1563.
[1741] Vse. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1742] Rebuke thou vice, so. 1563.
[1743] His. 1563.
[1744] His sinfull prankes. 1563.
[1745] Warne poetes therfore not to. 1563.
[1746] Kepe them in the streames. 1563.
[1747] Vnto. 1571, 75, 78.
[1748] Freedome save them from extreames. 1563.
[1749] This legend without signature. Attributed to Baldwin.
[1750] Q. 1563.
[1751] Destructions. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1752] Eternal. 1563.
[1753] Q. 1563.
[1754] Q. 1563.
[1755] Q. 1563.
[1756] Date added. 1571.
[1757] Murdred. 1563, 75.
[1758] I conspyred. 1563.
[1759] Spyrytes. 1563.
[1760] To cruel cursed. 1563.
[1761] Lived. 1563, 71, 75.
[1762] Attempt. 1578.
[1763] Proffer ready for my. 1563.
[1764] Q. 1563.
[1765] Rendered. 1563, 71, 75.
[1766] The. 1563.
[1767] Rufull. 1563.
[1768] Torne. 1563.
[1769] Bloudy. 1563.
[1770] His life also from him I raught. 1563.
[1771] Were. 1563.
[1772] Silly. 1563.
[1773] Do. 1563, 71, 75.
[1774] Ful euel. 1563, 71, 75.
[1775] Happy happe. 1563.
[1776] And. 1563.
[1777] Therle. 1563, 71, 75.
[1778] Added ed. 1571 for Francis Segar. This legend omitted by Niccols.
[1779] Q. 1563.
[1780] The. 1563.
[1781] Q. 1563.
[1782] Yll. 1563.
[1783] In the editions of 1571, 75, 78, the legends of Michael Joseph and Jane Shore were transposed, the latter being made to conclude the volume. The induction to the first in 1563 is in few words, nearly the same as the above conclusion. It follows: “When they had sayde their myndes herein allowyng it very well, they willed me also to reade the blacke Smyth. “Wyth a good wyll,” quod I, “but fyrst you must ymagine that you see hym standynge on a ladder, ouershryned wyth the Tyborne, a meete trone for all suche rebelles and trayters: and there corageouslye sayenge as folowethe.”
[1784] Date added. 1571.
[1785] Then is the Bayard blind. N.
[1786] Then do the bold in mind. N.
[1787] Is. 1563, 71. N.
[1788] Swimming carelesse of. N.
[1789] Starest and lookest. 1563, 71.
[1790] Sawest. 1563, 71.
[1791] Boldie. N.
[1792] Nature planted so in. N.
[1793] The, wanting. 1563. N.
[1794] Awdley, one of birth. N.
[1795] My. 1563.
[1796] Beginth. 1563. Beginneth. 1571.
[1797] Do. 1563, 71.
[1798] Vertues. N.
[1799] Be. 1563, 71.
[1800] Weale. N.
[1801] Inforst. 1563, 71.
[1802] Proue it vntrue. N.
[1803] Rebell heretofore or since. N.
[1804] Purpose. N.
[1805] He entred is to. N.
[1806] Seeke. N.
[1807] With foolish men so falsehood is. N.
[1808] That faith is sinne. N.
[1809] Soldiers out. N.
[1810] To praise. N.
[1811] Hopes. N.
[1812] They ’ncrease. N.
[1813] Through. N.
[1814] Christen. 1563, 71.
[1815] Assur’d. N.
[1816] God’s fierce wrath. N.
[1817] Hear’st reason. N.
[1818] Think’st. N.
[1819] Lacked. 1563, 71.
[1820] Hole. 1563, 71.
[1821] Others. 1563.
[1822] Flamoke both agreed together. N.
[1823] Breake bondage now. N.
[1824] To purchase fame. N.
[1825] Counted was a lout. N.
[1826] Man his brother did entice. N.
[1827] Each one so wedded was vnto. N.
[1828] With sword. N.
[1829] Men rebell there. N.
[1830] Sort. N.
[1831] They beare the port. N.
[1832] Crie vnto the rest. N.
[1833] For that he there did sit in high commission. N.
[1834] Wels and were. N.
[1835] He had. N.
[1836] ’Twill. N.
[1837] From vs by night away together straid. N.
[1838] City and with. N.
[1839] Did intend the. N.
[1840] Fully bent to N.
[1841] Were farthest from our habitation. N.
[1842] Were slaughtered all as. N.
[1843] Arm’d. N.
[1844] Led as. N.
[1845] After doome. N.
[1846] An, wanting. 1563.
[1847] Al torne, 1563.
[1848] Reuers’d. N.
[1849] He (the king) caused the Lord Audeleigh to be drawen from Newgate to the Towre hie in a cote of his awne armes peinted vpon paper, reuersed and al to torne, and there to be behedded the xxviii day of Juyn. And Thomas Flamock and Myghell Joseph he commaunded after the fassyon of treytours to be drawen, hanged and quartred. Hall.
[1850] With Flamoke I and. N.
[1851] Lookt. N.
[1852] I should haue fame. N.
[1853] This Mighell Joseph, surnamed the black smyth, one of the capiteins of this donge hill and draffe sacked ruffians, was of such stowte stomack and haute courage, that at the same time that he was drawen on the herdle toward his death, he sayd, as men do reporte: “That for this myscheuous and facinorous acte, he should haue a name perpetual and a fame permanent and immortal.” So (you may perceaue) that desire and ambicious cupidite of vaine glorie and fame, enflameth, and encourageth aswel poore and meane persones, as the heartes of great lords and puyssaunt princes to trauayle and aspire to the same. Hall.
[1854] Seruant happier. N.
[1855] Mightie men. N.
[1856] The loftie towre. N.
[1857] Toile. N.
[1858] Griefe. N.
[1859] Baldwin, therefore do. N.
[1860] For president to. N.
[1861] The talent well. N.
[1862] One’s. N.
Thrice happie are those men, yea, blest is hee,
Who can contented serue in his degree. N.
[1864] Signature added. 1571.
[1865] Q. 1563.
[1866] Q. 1563.
[1867] Good pleasure. 1563.
[1868] Q. 1563.
[1869] “But because the night is cum, I will trouble you no longer, I haue certayne rabets here but they are not wurth the readinge. I will cause these which you haue allowed, to be printed as soon as I may conueniently.” This sayd we take leue eche of other, and so departed. 1563.
This sentence concludes the edition of 1563. The above continuance of the induction, added by Higgins in 1587, to introduce his own legend of sir Nicholas Burdet, then first printed, and who adopted Holinshed instead of Hall for his authority. See Chronicles temp. Hen. VIth. passim.
[1870] If erst in king’s affaires. N.
[1871] Warr’d. N.
[1872] Prince’s warre. N.
[1873] See Holinshed’s Chronicles, Vol. III. p. 345, ed. 1808.
[1874] Nerethelesse. N.
[1875] Proue. N.
[1876] Wondrous. N.
[1877] Quoth. N.
[1878] Dispatcht. N.
[1879] Quoth. N.
[1880] Pierce. N.
[1881] This legend first published in ed. 1587.
[1882] M. H. i. e. Maister Higins.
[1883] This and the following legend are only inserted in the edition of 1587. There are copies of both in the Harleian MS. 2252, and not improbable that which furnished Higgins with his copy. The notes will shew the alterations.
[1884] Crye. MS.
[1885] Began. MS.
[1886] Sore aferde. MS.
[1887] Sawe hee had a berd. MS.
[1888] My, wanting. MS.
[1889] Lackyd. MS.
[1890] Order my realme I cowde with a whyte wand. MS.
[1891] Life, wanting. MS.
[1892] A, wanting. MS.
[1893] Chaungeth aye me. MS.
[1894] My. MS.
[1895] To folow yor apetyte I dyde as ye me badde. MS.
[1896] But showyll and spade: varied in the margin to: hence for to fade. MS.
[1897] Yn my men torne. MS.
[1898] Payn eternall for my inequyte. MS.
[1899] And my realme and ek to owr shame. MS.
[1900] He wynneth. MS.
[1901] Was only. MS.
[1902] But began by. MS.
I was curssyd with candyll boke & bell,
I cowde not achyve yn no maner a degre,
To assyste ‘a sysmatyke’ me dyde not well. MS.
The last varied to ‘an enemye,’ in margin.
[1904] Awtoryte. MS.
[1905] The seusurys of the chyrche. Corrected in margin as above. MS.
[1906] Dam͞ ed, also altered as above. MS.
[1907] Cruell swerde. MS.
[1908] And exsampyll. MS.
[1909] Yn. MS.
[1910] A. MS.
[1911] With. MS.
[1912] Chyrche, altered as above in the margin. MS.
[1913] God neythyre. MS.
[1914] Crystyn man yn worse case. MS.
[1915] Then. MS.
[1916] In, wanting. MS.
[1917] Abhorryth me. MS.
[1918] Forsakyth me & hathe. MS.
[1919] Mercyfull Lord, for me pray. MS.
O Rex regum in thy realme celestyall,
Gloryfied with joyes of Gabryall’s company,
Haue mercy onn kyng Jemy’s sowle.
Thy pete on hym Lord do magnyfye.
For thow haste hym prostrate so sodenlye
That vs to withstonde he had no myghte
By the helpe of Saynte George, our ladye’s knyghte. MS.
The first three lines altered in the margin conformable to the above text. The last line forms the conclusion of every stanza.
[1921] Wonderly. MS.
[1922] Gretythe. MS.
[1923] As. MS.
[1924] Than sone was cryed. MS.
[1925] Ar. MS.
[1926] Daunt warde. MS.
[1927] Conyes. MS.
For hym pray all England for hee
Was the noblest man yn that fyghte,
By the helpe of S. George owr ladye’s knyght. MS.
[1929] Ever more blessyd mote thowe be. MS.
[1930] Wyte well call hym we may. MS.
[1931] As delygente as. MS.
[1932] Ded helpe. MS.
[1933] Yt was to see at that. MS.
[1934] Perdy, not in the MS.
[1935] A royall. MS.
[1936] Which manly. MS.
[1937] Begyn. MS.
[1938] A one. MS.
[1939] Whoo durst abyde strokks neuer retourned. MS.
[1940] They devyded them yn bushements with. MS.
[1941] Yn thys maner. MS.
[1942] Men that tyme fled for fere. MS.
[1943] Seyne. MS.
[1944] That gracyous fleyng. MS.
[1945] With the comlyeste company yn crystentte. MS.
[1946] Holy Trenyte. MS.
[1947] To show there. MS.
[1948] Ancre the Skotts dyd myche tene. MS.
[1949] Dyd by grace of God almyght. MS. Altered in the margin according to the above text.
[1950] Scotts by powr. of God almyght. Altered in margin as above. MS.
[1951] Bells dyd ryng that lay. MS.
[1952] They were. MS.
[1953] Go we to hyt good fellows, all shalbe owrs by the grace of God’s might. MS.
[1954] To sle and fall. MS.
[1955] Vnto. MS.
[1956] Lythe. MS.
[1957] Haue the lovyng. MS.
[1958] Euery. MS.
[1959] His, wanting. MS.
[1960] Be to. MS.
[1961] From danger dolefull vs defendyng. MS.
[1962] And ruler. MS.
[1963] Suffryd. MS.
Haue mercye on kyng Jemy’s sowle,
Indulgens graunt hym for hys transgression. MS.
And lawde honor & prayse be to the o͞ Lord almyght,
For the redde lyon ys confusyd, & ye. whyte hath vyctory. MS.
Explycit bellum de Brampton.
Quod. Fraunces Dyngley de manston. MS.
[1967] The induction to the following legend of Jane Shore, in the edition of 1563, is that already given at p. 394, continuing from the sentence “so yll a person. And to supplye that whych is lackinge in him, here I haue Shore’s Wyfe, an eloquent wentch, whyche shall furnishe out both in meter and matter, that which could not comlily be sayd in his [K. Richard’s] person. Marke, I praye you, what she sayeth, and tell me howe you like it.”
In the editions of 1571, 75, 78, where this legend comes by transposition next after Michael Joseph, the Blacksmith, it has the induction printed at p. 415-17, to the words “God will suffer none of his to be tempted aboue their strength. But because [it continues] these two persons last before rehersed were thoughte not onelye obscure in the matter but also crabbed in the meeter, I haue here redy to supply that which lacked in them, Shore’s wyfe, an eloquent wench,” as just quoted, varying “his person” to “their persons.”
[1968] Although the name of Churchyard was affixed to the legend of Jane Shore in common with the other authors in the edition of 1571, it is certain that his title to that production was often questioned, (unless it may be believed that the doubt was started to assist in obtaining notoriety,) from the many laboured assertions made in various places in support of his title, and it is to that circumstance the above passage alludes.
Jane Shore did not die until about 1527, and her popularity long survived her: the events of her life were then almost recent and well known from the interesting character drawn other by Sir T. More, which will be found in a future note, and must have given celebrity to this poem beyond many other of the same poet’s productions. After a lapse of thirty years from its first appearance, Churchyard reprinted “the tragedie of Shore’s Wife, much augmented with divers newe additions,” with other pieces in his Challenge, 1593, and in a dedication strenuously defended himself against those who had attempted to wrest from him this portion of his literary honours. This fact was first pointed out by that accurate and diligent researcher into the productions of the elder poets, Mr. Park, in the Censura Literaria, Vol. II. p. 309, (where the whole legend had been previously inserted) and from that source with the advantage and kindness of a further collation of the additions with the original by Mr. Park, those additions are now inserted in their respective places in the body of the work. They consist of 21 stanzas, viz. from 11 to 14-29 to 31-34 to 36-52 to 60-68 and 74, and are distinguished with asterisks. To complete the additions there is now given the author’s dedication.
“To the right honorable the Lady Mount-Eagle and Compton, wife to the right honourable the Lord of Buckhurst’s son and heire.
“Good Madame. For that the vertuous and good ladie Carie, your sister, honourablie accepted a discourse of my penning, I beleeved your ladiship would not refuse the like offer, humbly presented and dutifully ment, I bethought me of a tragedie that long laye printed and many speake well of: but some doubting the shallownesse of my heade, (or of meere mallice disdaineth my doings) denies me the fathering of such a worke, that hath won so much credit: but as sure as God lives, they that so defames me, or doth disable me in this cause, doth me such an open wrong, as I would be glad to right with the best blood in my body, so he be mine equall that moved such a quarrell: but mine old yeares doth utterly forbid me such a combat, and to contend with the malicious, I thinke it a madnesse; yet I protest before God and the world, the penning of Shore’s Wife was mine; desiring in my hart that all the plagues in the worlde maie possesse me, if anie holpe me, either with scrowle or councell, to the publishing of the invencion of the same Shore’s Wife: and to show that yet my spirits faile me not in as great matters as that, I have augmented her tragedie, I hope in as fine a forme as the first impression thereof, and hath sette forth some more tragedies and tragicall discourses, no whit inferiour, as I trust, to my first worke. And, good madame, because “Rosimond” is so excellently sette forth (the actor[1969] whereof I honour) I have somewhat beautified my Shore’s Wife, not in any kind of emulation, but to make the world knowe my device in age is as ripe and reddie as my disposition and knowledge was in youth, so having chosen a noble personage to be a patrones to support poore Shore’s Wife’s tragedie againe I commend all the verses of her, olde and newe to your good ladiship’s judgment, hoping you shall lose no honour in the supportation of the same because the true writer thereof, with all humblenesse of mind and service, presents the tragedie unto your honourable censure, wishing long life and increase of vertue’s fame to make your ladiship’s day happie.
T. Churchyard.”
[1969] Samuel Daniel.
[1970] “That is crept is in” is the text and corrected among the faults escaped to “that crept is in the strawe.” 1563.
[1971] Eche vice. 1563.
[1972] Good Baldwyn. 1563.
[1973] That. 1563.
[1974] Of. 1563.
[1975] “Of the earth,” in the text corrected as a fault escaped to “of earth.” 1563.
[1976] Were. 1563.
[1977] Was. 1563.
[1978] Then, misprint. 1587.
[1979] The offendour. 1563.
[1980] You are never the. 1563.
[1981] To. 1563.
[1982] The nightingale.
[1983] Neuer. 1563.
[1984] The ende. 1563.
[1985] Helpt. 1563.
[1986] No care. 1563.
[1987] Flitting. 1563. Which appears intended to be altered, as in the faults escaped we are directed to read “her flitting frames.”
[1988] Her net. 1563.
[1989] Wee, misprint. 1587.
[1990] From me. 1563.
[1991] Him. 1563.
[1992] Fayned. 1563, 71.
[1993] The description of the person and the character of this frail, though not quite unamiable beauty, was faithfully delineated in her lifetime by the eloquent sir Thomas More, in the history of Richard III. That that description is now given from Hall’s Chronicle, ed. 1548, may need requiring the reader’s indulgence, as much apposite matter, less known, has been, of necessity, omitted in the notes, from the unusual size of the present volume, but the relation appeared too interesting to reject. After the execution of Lord Hastings, the historian says: “By and by, as it were for anger and not for coueteous, the protectoure sent sir Thomas Hawarde to the house of Shore’s wyfe (for her husbande dwelte not with her) whiche spoyled her of all that euer she had, aboue the valure of twoo or thre thousande markes, and sent her bodye to pryson. And the protectoure had layde to her for the maner sake that she was a counsaill with the lorde Hastynges to destroye hym. In conclusion, when no coloure could fasten vpon these matters, then he layed heynously to her charge that thyng that she could not denye, for all the world knewe that it was true, and that notwithstandyng euery man laughed to heare it then so sodeynly, so highly taken, that she was naught of her body. And for this cause as a godly continent prince cleane and fautlesse of hym selfe, sent out of heauen into thys vicious worlde, for the amendement of men’s maners, he caused the byshop of London to putte her to open penaunce, goyng before a crosse one Sondaye at procession with a taper in her hand. In the whiche she went in countenaunce and peace so womanly, and albeit she was out of all aray sauyng kyrtel only, yet went she so fayre and louely, and namely when the wondryng of the people cast a comely red in her chekes, of the whiche she before had most mysse, that her great shame wanne her much prayse amongest them that were more amorous of her body then curious of her soule, and many good folke that hated her liuyng and were glad to se synne corrected, yet pitied they more her penaunce then reioysed it, when they considered that the protector did more of corrupt mynd then any vertuous affection.
“This woman was borne in London, well frended, honestly brought vp and very well maryed, sauyng somewhat to sone, her husbande an honest and a yong citezen, godly and of good substaunc, but forasmuche as they were coupled or she were well rype, she not very feruently loued for whom she neuer longed, which was the thyng (by chaunce) that the more easily made her to encline to the kynge’s appetite, when he required her. Howbeit the respect of his royaltie, the hope of gaye apparell, ease, pleasure, and other wanton wealth, was hable sone to perce a softe tendre hart: but when the kyng had abused her, anone her husband beyng an honest manne and one that could his good, not presumyng to touche a kynge’s concubyne left her vp to hym altogether. When the kyng dyed, the lorde Hastynges toke her, whiche in the kynge’s dayes albeit that he was sore enamoured with her yet he forbare, either for a pryncely reuerence or for a certayne frendely faithfulnesse. Proper she was and fayre, nothyng in her bodye that you could haue chaunged, but yf you would haue wished her somewhat higher. This saye they that knewe her in her youthe, some sayed and iudged that she had bene well fauoured, and some iudged the contrary, whose iudgement seameth like as menne gesse the beautye of one long before departed, by a scaple taken out of a chanell house, and this iudgment was in the tyme of kyng Henry the eyght in the xviii. yere of whose reigne she dyed, when she had nothing but a reueled skynne and bone. Her beautye pleased not menne so muche as her pleasaunt behauoure, for she had a proper wytte and coulde both reade and wryte, mery in compaigny, redy and quicke of answere, neyther mute nor full of bable, somtyme tantyng without displeasure, but not without disporte. Kyng Edward would saye that he had thre concubines, which in diuerse proparties diuersly excelled, one the meriest, the other the wyliest, the thirde the holyest harlot in the realme as one, whom no man coulde get out of the churche to any place lightly, but if it were to his bed, the other two were somwhat greater personages then mastres Shore, and neuerthelesse of their humilitie were content to be nameles and to forbeare the prayse of these properties. But the meriest was Shore’s wyfe in whom the kyng therfore toke great pleasure, for many he had, but her he loued, whose fauoure to saye the trueth (for it were synne to lye on the deuil) she neuer abused to any man’s hurt, but to many men’s comforte and reliefe. For where the kyng toke displeasure, she would mitigate and apeace his mynde, where men were out of fauour, she would bryng them into his grace, for many that had highly offended, she obteyned pardon, and of forfeatures she gat remission; and, finally, in many weighty suites she stode many menne in great steade, either for none or very small rewarde: and those rather gaye then riche, either for that she was content with the dede well done, or for that she delighted to be sued vnto, and to shewe what she was able to do with the kyng, or for that that wanton women and welthy be not alwaies couetous, I doubt not some man wyl thynke this woman to be to slight to be written of emong graue and weyghtie matters, whiche they shall specially thynke that happely sawe her in her age and aduersite, but me semeth the chaunce so much more worthy to be remembred, in how much after wealth she fell to pouertie, and from riches to beggery vnfrended, out of acquaintance, after great substaunce, after so great fauour with her prince, after as great suite and sekyng to with all those which in those dayes had busynes to spede as many other men were in their tymes, whiche be now famous onely by the infamy of their euill deedes, her doynges were not muche lesse, albeit they be muche lesse remembred, because they were not euyll, for men vse to write an euyll turne in marble stone, but a good turne they wryte in the dust, which is not worst proued by her, for after her wealth she went beggyng of many that had begged them selfes if she had not holpen them, suche was her chaunce.” See Percy’s Reliques, 1794, Vol. II. p. 256. More’s Utopia, by Dibdin, Vol. I. p. lxxxiii.
[1994] Moved. 1563.
[1995] ‘Warning,’ corrected by the faults escaped in ed. 1563. The text of every copy is ‘warrant.’
[1996] Bad. 1563.
[1997] And say. 1563.
[1998] Of my. 1563.
[1999] This. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[2000] Signature added 1571.
[2001] Hid. N.
[2002] Tale, misprint. 1587. N.
[2003] Off’cers. N.
[2004] He died of a continuall flyxe, in the abbey of Leycester, as Stowe writeth. Margin.
[2005] This concludes the edition of 1587.
[2006] This legend of Cromwell, by Drayton, was entered in the Stationers’ books, to Iohn Flaskett, 12 Oct. 1607, and printed in quarto the same year. It was inserted by Niccols in the edition of 1610, from which it is now given, collated with the author’s poems, printed for Iohn Smethwick, 1637, 12mo.
[2007] Can tell as one that much did know. 1637.
[2008] Me that my breath. 1637.
[2009] To my sicke mother. 1637.
[2010] Who. 1637.
[2011] Win that place. 1637.
[2012] I tooke. 1637.
[2013] For ’twas distastefull. 1637.
[2014] Being besides industriously. 1637.
[2015] My judgement more to rectifie. 1637.
[2016] World it meant to win. 1637.
[2017] For Boston businesse hotly then in. 1637.
[2018] Soon it me won. 1637.
[2019] Jovial in my selfe was I. 1637.
[2020] And there. 1637.
[2021] Yet. 1637.
[2022] From the pomp. 1637.
[2023] Into the same I thought to make my way. 1637.
[2024] And my. 1637.
[2025] Her. 1637.
[2026] Fast declining. 1637.
[2027] To see. 1637.
[2028] He first. 1637.
[2029] Studies wholly I did. 1637.
[2030] To that which then the wisest. 1637.
[2031] Thereto. 1637.
[2032] There then were very. 1637.
[2033] Which after did most fearfull. 1637.
[2034] I no occasion vainly did reject. 1637.
[2035] Some that those courses diligently ey’d. 1637.
[2036] Slily. 1637.
[2037] Nought. 1637.
[2038] Into. 1637.
[2039] Who. 1637.
[2040] Up to him which that. 1637.
[2041] This. 1637.
[2042] Sat him far. 1637.
[2043] Wits doe. 1637.
For which my master Wolsey might and maine,
Into such favour. 1637.
[2045] Tow’rds. 1637.
[2046] Before that Card’nall had me. 1637.
[2047] Hasting then. 1637.
[2048] To prove. 1637.
[2049] I had won. 1637.
[2050] Did. 1637.
[2051] When I had laine full low. 1637.
[2052] Who as. 1637.
[2053] And an. 1637.
[2054] Russel. 1637.
[2055] One that me. 1637.
[2056] Strook pale. 1637.
[2057] Or I could aske. 1637.
[2058] Were such in. 1637.
[2059] Bad. 1637.
[2060] Then of. 1637.
[2061] And then. 1637.
[2062] There were not. 1637.
[2063] Was he found. 1637.
[2064] I lesse that. 1637.
[2065] Was vicegerent made. 1637.
[2066] Him kindly to embrace. 1637.
[2067] Wrong to thy most noble. 1637.
[2068] When th’wast great’st. 1637.
[2069] He to. 1637.
[2070] Though, omitted. 1637.
[2071] Disdaigned not to. 1637.
[2072] The man thought sure he. 1637.
[2073] To wake. 1637.
[2074] I was to this good gentleman. 1637.
[2075] To. 1637.
[2076] With what might make them any. 1637.
[2077] To. 1637.
[2078] Had to the church. 1637.
[2079] Besides the. 1637.
[2080] Had not knowne. 1637.
Example it to him was showne,
How Rome might here be eas’ly ouerthrowne. 1637.
[2082] Slander which from him should. 1637.
[2083] These. 1637.
[2084] Herselfe not limiting. 1637.
[2085] Dislik’d of her. 1637.
[2086] Seeing those. 1637.
[2087] To her great. 1637.
[2088] To the wise world. 1637.
[2089] Againe but onely to destroy. 1637.
[2090] As it in midst of much abundance. 1637.
[2091] Him should to the. 1637.
[2092] Hand to my deare cousin here. 1637.
[2093] Crost him, I could not be. 1637.
[2094] What. 1637.
[2095] When what. 1637.
[2096] Truth, now turn’d to heresie. 1637.
[2097] Enduring and as seldome good. 1637.
[2098] Much. 1637.