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,