Place it in Baldwine’s Miroir with the reste:
From crazed scull sith here my mynde I tell,
Sith bleedeing hart these ruefull rymes expreste,
This mangled tale beseemes my person beste:
“Do so?” quoth hee “and let it passe euen thus:“
“Viuit” quoth I, “post funera virtus.”
Iohn Higins.[1881]
[“This knight, my maisters,” quoth one, “came somwhat to late in order.” “That is maruaile,” quoth maister Ferrers, “it seemes that hee was forwarde enoughe in seruice.” “Yea,” quoth another, “hee came the later home for that, and therefore wee must accept his cause.” “How ere hee came,” quoth M. H.[1882] “hee sayes well, and like a noble gentleman, as no doubt hee was.” “Hee should haue beene placed,” quoth one, “after king Iames the first, king of Scots, of whome wee spake in the yeare 1437.” “Now,” quoth I, “that you talke of king Iames, I haue king Iames the fourth here, which was slayne at the batayle of Brampton, or Floddon fielde, but hee is very rude”[1883] “I like him,” quoth one, “the better: for if hee should bee otherwise, it would not well beseeme his person, nor the place whence he comes.” “Reade it,” quoth they, “as it is.” “Thinke then,” quoth I, “that you see him standing all wounded, with a shafte in his body, and, emongst other woundes, one geuen by a byll, both deadly, to say in his rude and faithlesse maner as followeth.”]
[The lamentation of King James the fourth, King of Scots, slayne at Brampton, in the fiuthe yeare of King Henry the eight, Anno Christi, 1513.
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