Of which let my sad life in Cardiffe lead,
A lasting Mirrour be, though I be dead.
THE MEMORABLE LIFE AND
death of King Richard the first,
surnamed Cœur de Lion.
THE ARGUMENT.
“This prince,” quoth Memorie, “did liue too long,
At his sterne brother’s hands to beare such wrong,
Which yet reuenged was by God’s owne hand,
Vpon himselfe, his children, and his land:
Two sonnes he had, of daughters also twaine,
Of which three drown’d, were swallow’d in the maine,