Where with an axe his violent death hee tooke:
Hee neuer could king Edward’s party brooke,
Tyll by his death hee voucht that quarell good,
In which his sire and graundsire spilt theyr bloud.
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And such was erst my father’s cruell chaunce,
Of Stafforde earle, by name that Humfrey hight,
Who euer prest did Henrye’s part auaunce,
And neuer ceast, till at S. Albane’s fight
Hee lost his life, as then[1579] did many a knight: