The kinge’s young person, slaying whom he had pleas’d:

But God of iustice had withturnd that fate,

Which, where it ought, light on his proper pate.

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Then practised they by[1468] proclamation spred,

Nought to forget, that mought[1469] defame him dead:

Which was so curious, and so clerkely pend,

So long withal, that when some did attend

His death so young, they saw, that long before

The shroude was shaped, then babe to dye was bore: