Consuming idly all their dayes,
Their praises had been with them dead,
Where now abroad their fame is spread.”
The work is reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany, vol. viii., from which I take the following extracts: first, William Walworth (p. 443):—
“But when I saw the rebells’ pride encrease,
And none controll and counterchecke their rage;
’Twere service good (thought I) to purchase peace,
And malice of contentious brags asswage;
With this conceyt, all fear had taken flight.
And I alone prest to the traitor’s sight.