First Edward was, the next place Edmund wonne,

Rutland’s yong earle by Clifford’s hand strooke dead,

Clarence the third, to death vntimely lead:

I was the last: of all the foure the worst,

By heau’n and nature in my birth accurst.

3.

When my sad mother in her fruitfull wombe

Bore me a painfull burthen to and fro,

Then the babe’s infant bed had been my tombe,

Had not keene rasors to her paine and woe