54.

Thus drownde I was, yet for no due desert,

Except the zeale of justice bee a crime:

False prophecies bewitcht king Edward’s hart,

My brother Richard to the crowne would clime:

Note these three causes in thy rufull rime,

And boldly say they did procure my fall,

And death of deaths most straunge and hard of all.

55.

And warne all[1210] princes prophecyes to eschue,