And euer the kyng Edward hight men greate hyre,
Hym for to take and by might conquere;
But thei might hym not gette by force ne by train,
He satte by the fyre when thei [went] in the rain.
In the stanza immediately following he indeed ascribes the death of Edward to his disappointment, in never being able to get our king into his hands:—
The kyng Edward for anger fell in accesse,
And homeward came full sycke and sore annoyed.—
At Burgh vpon the sande he died anone, &c.
Chronicle, p. 303, 304.