Yea peereles too, had reason[1577] purchast place,
And God with giftes endowde mee largely heere:
But what auayles his giftes where fayles his grace?
My mother’s sire sprong of a kingly race,
And cald was Edmund duke of Somerset,
Bereft of life ere time by nature set.
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Whose faythfull heart to Henry sixt so wrought,
That neuer hee him in[1578] weale, or woe, forsooke,
Till lastly hee at Tewkesbury fielde was cought,