Of noble peeres, from honour’s throne to dust,
As nobles lesse in tyckle[1303] state to trust:
Shonning those sinnes, that shake the golden leaues
Perforce from boughs, ere nature bare the greaues:
So, what my life profest, my death here teacheth,
And, as with word, so with example preacheth.[1304]
6.
The hilly heauens, and valey earth belowe[1305]
Yet ring his fame, whose deedes so great did grow;
Edward the fourth yee know, vnnamde I meane,