His skin with bloud and teares so sore bestaynd,[957]
Is that thou mayest the better vnderstand,
How hardly fortune hath for vs ordaynd,
In whome her loue and hate bee hole contaynd:
For I am Richard, prince Plantagenet,
The duke of Yorke in royall race beget.[958]
3.
For Richard earle of Cambridge, eldest sonne
Of Edmund Langley, thyrd[959] sonne of king Edward,
Engendred mee, of Anne, whose course[960] did runne