6.
The realme and crowne was Edmund Mortimer’s,[968]
Whose father Roger was king Richard’s heire:
Which caused Henry and the Lancasters[969]
To seeke all shiftes our housholdes[970] to appayre,
For sure hee was to sit beside the chayre
Where wee of power to claime our lawfull right,
Wherefore to stroy vs hee did all hee might.[971]
7.
His cursed sonne ensued his cruell path,