And as for Yorke’s part alledge an elder right:
O braynelesse heades, that so run in and out:
Whan length of time a state hath firmely pyght,
And good accord hath put all strife to flight,
Were it not better such titles still to sleepe,[928]
Than all a realme about the tryall weepe.[929]
36.
From the female came Yorke, and all his seede,[930]
And wee of Lancaster[931] from the heire male,
Of whome three kinges in order did succeede,