Where still the distress'd he kindly relieved.

King Henry usurping then all his estate,

Could never in heart be content,

Till some of his friends in secresy sought

To kill him by cruel consent;

Who soon to Pomfret hied,

Whereas the fear,

That touch'd him so near,

They finish'd as soon as king Richard there died.

There dy'd this good king, for murther'd he was,