In Richard daies proclaim’d apparant heire,

Who had duke Lionel’s daughter for his mother,

Edward’s third sonne, to Iohn the elder brother:

Yet did this Henrie after much vnrest

Die in the throne of England’s crowne possest:

And to his Henrie did bequeath the same,

The fifth and most illustrate of that name:

Who in those few yeares of his happie raigne

Did the French crowne to England’s right regaine:

Di’d in his manly prime, left his yong sonne