Well, thus did I for want of better wit,

Because my parents naughtely brought mee vp:

For gentlemen (they sayd) was nought so fyt,

As to attast by bold attempts the cup

Of conquest’s wine, whereof I thought to sup:

And therefore bent my selfe to rob and ryue,

And whome I could of landes and goodes depriue.

10.

For[511] Henry the fourth did then vsurpe the crowne,

Despoyled the king, with Mortimer the heyre: