As to their soueraigne fealtie did sweare:
At last report these fearefull newes doth bring,
We were depos’d, Gloster was England’s king.
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Which, when I first did heare, a thrilling feare
Ran through my heart, and sighing thus I spake:
“Alas, that I was borne king Edward’s heire,
Would God my vncle, though from me he take
My crowne, which willingly I could forsake,
Would leaue vs that, which none but God can giue,