Let princes learne, that where debate, the nurce
Of discord, doth the prince and peeres diuide,
Nought but destruction can that state betide:
Of which let that sad time of my short reigne,
A Mirrour vnto future time remaine.
THE WOFVLL LIFE AND DEATH
of King Edward the second.
THE ARGUMENT.
“Writers,” quoth Memorie, “were much to blame
Of Iohn, that noble prince, to speake such shame:
But little credit vnto them we giue,