And cast it selfe from glorie headlong downe!

O foule ambition, had thy guilt not stain’d

This tyrant’s deeds, what glorie had he gain’d?

9.

For though he from his mother’s painfull throwes,

Mark’t for a plague into the world was brought;

Yet with his sword gainst our Lancastrian foes

In many bloodie broiles he manly fought:

And by his courage high achieuements wrought,

Great Warwicke, Oxford, Clifford, and the rest,