[851] My coosyn’s bloud, my refuge and my stay. 1578.

[852] Bare the sway. 1578.

[853] So long rebelles no quarelles. 1578.

[854] Once pulled. 1563.

[855]

The duke of Yorke, than stoutly hee stept in,

And chalenged the crowne by color. 1578.

[856] And in. 1563.

[857]

And spred great brutes in England up and downe,

That he of England was the heire true. 1578.

[858] Vsurped had. 1563.

[859] May rue. 1563. Right, by practise most vntrue. 1578.

[860] A chaunge. 1563.

[861] The land. 1563.

[862] Awles wanting one to dread. 1563.

[863] Lawles by weakenes of the heade. 1563.

[864] Where the prynce prest hath alway sword. 1563.

[865]

For dread of whom no man dare do amis,

Whose prince is prest alwayes and sword in hand. 1578.

[866] All enemies. 1578.

[867] In case the sonne had proued sutch a one. 1578.

[868]

Sure had he sitten in the royall throne,

Dreadlesse, and carelesse of common vpror;

But Henrie’s weakenesse appeered more and more. 1578.

[869] And that gave boldenes to the aduers bande. 1563. Contrary band.

1578.

[870]

To the gaye gallants of Yorke’s retinue;

Any lowe ground is highly ouerflowen. 1578.

[871] By bold traytours may bee soone remoued. 1578.

[872] That men durst. 1563.

[873] Head poste. 1563.

[874] Then wanting. 1563.

[875] I, omitted. 1563, 78.

[876] By whose malice this. 1578.

[877] To such a noble man. 1563.

[878] Afterward did ban. 1563.

[879] When our poste removed. 1563.

[880] The close traytour then. 1578.

[881] And he that lay hyd came. 1563. From the dark came. 1578.

[882] Whych thyng to compasse him. 1563.

[883] But this to achieue, first it him behoued. 1578.

[884] For, wanting. 1563.

[885] Who once perforce, or practice ill remoued. 1578.

[886] In hyghest authoritie about his grace. 1563.

Next to the prince and other to abase. 1578.

[887] I was the fyrst. 1571, 75, 78.

[888] Therefore he wrought strayght me to displace. 1563.

[889] For by. 1563.

[890] Would. 1563, 78.

[891] Subdue and haue them at his will. 1578.

[892] That geue. 1578.

[893] Loe, to a rebell what it is to geve place. 1563.

[894] So for the fishe when cast forth was the net. 1578.

[895] His plat. 1563.

[896] Common doltes to cause furiously to fret. 1563.

[897] He standing at. 1563.

[898] Graspe would the pray that he long dyd awayte. 1563.

[899] Practises. 1563.

[900] Which nought lesse meant then he. 1563. Who little ment, that

which hee. 1578.

[901] Lurkinge. 1578.

[902] But wanting. 1563.

[903] Then dyd he attempt the people. 1563.

[904] In, wanting. 1563.

[905] The troublous storme yet. N.

[906] How speedily. N.

[907] Like a Judas. 1563.

[908] Thynkinge time. 1578.

[909] Any wanting. 1563.

[910]

S. Albane’s towne, where both our hoastes did meete,

To trye a fielde, was not an equall place,

For we were forst to fight within a streete,

With fewe agaynst many, sutch was the case. 1578.

[911] But thought no whit. 1563. But little thought of. 1578.

[912] More foole hee that. 1578.

[913] The stout earle. N.

[914] Clifford couragious could not. N.

[915] Couragious Clifford could not eschewe the dart. 1578.

[916] Stafford although stout, free went not from this marte. 1563.

[917] Ralph Babthorpe sewer to the king, and Ralph his sonne, the

king’s attorney. _Stowe._

[918] Was found very. 1563.

[919]

Babthorp th’attorney, with his skill in law,

In pleeding here appeared very raw. N.

So thus this poore kyng disarmed. 1563.

[920] So thus poore prince disarmed. 1578. King Henrie thus disarmed. N.

[921] Friends all slayne, wantinge good. 1578.

[922] His friends and followers wanting assistence. N.

[923] Depriued. N.

[924] When all in poste it was by acte decreed. 1563.

[925] The duke of Yorke should haue the regally. 1578.

[926] Then came the duke of Somerset, and all the other lordes with

the kynge’s power, whiche fought a sore and a cruel battail, in the

whiche, many a tall man lost hys lyfe: but the duke of Yorke sent euer

freshe men, to succor the wery, and put new men in the places of the

hurt persones, by whiche onely pollicie, the kynge’s army was profligat

and dispersed, and all the cheeftaines of the fielde almoste slaine and

brought to confusion. For there died vnder the signe of the castel,

Edmond duke of Somerset, who long before was warned to eschew all

castles, and besyde hym lay Henry the second erle of Northumberlande,

Humfrey erle of Stafford, sonne to the duke of Buckyngham, Ihon lorde

Clifford, &c. _Hall._

[927] A liege to. 1563.

[928] Titles should slepe. 1563.

[929] Realme for theyr tryall to wepe. 1563.

[930] From the heyre female came Yorke and his lede. 1563.

[931] And wee Lancastrians. 1578.

[932] I was in fault, or some about the queen. 1563.

[933] Some, omitted. 1578.

[934]

Thou lookest, Baldwyn, I should myselfe accuse,

Of some subtyle dryft or other lyke thing. 1563.

[935]

To the duke’s foes overmuch adhering,

Though some men’s practise did me thereto bryng. 1563.

[936] Forgeve it me for sore I dyd repent. 1563. To my foes driftes,

which I could not preuent. 1578.

[937] England had never felt. 1563.

[938] Second poynt. 1563.

[939] To any aduice agaynst. 1578.

[940] I and other mo abused. 1578.

[941] Therefore. N.

[942]

Forecast we lackt, which cannot be excused,

Of thinges to come, as soone. 1578.

[943] Cause of. 1578.

[944] Faultes I confesse, as no man liues without. 1578.

[945] I put thee, omitted. 1578.

[946] Thing to me is comfort. 1563.

[947] G. Ferrers. N.

[948] At S. Albane’s when he toke K. Henry prisoner, he was. 1578.

[949] Compare the remainder of this induction with the reading of the

editions of 1559, 63, at p. 166, n. 2.

[950] An. Dom. 1460 added. 1571. Earl of Rutland, an infant, cruelly

murdered, Anno 1460. 1578.

[951] Quoth. 1578.

[952] Trust not in chance, in whom. N.

[953] Of foolish men. N.

[954] O fooles most brute, that. 1578.

[955] How now? why dost thou, Baldwin, hide. 1578.

[956] See this poore boy, whom by the hand I lead. 1578.

[957] With bloud, and teares halinge his body staynd. 1578.

[958]

Rychard I am Plantagenet by name,

Whilom of Yorke the duke of worthy fame. 1573.

[959] Of duke Edmond, thirde. 1578.

[960] Engendred me of Anne, whose course. 1559, 63. This reading is

restored to supply sense to the text. The subsequent editions have:

Engendred mee, whereof the course.

[961] For when Edmond her brother dyed warde. 1578.

[962]

From Lionel, the third begotten sonne

Of kingly Edward, by descent I came

From Philip hight, his heire we first begun

The crowne as due to vs by right to clame:

And in the end we did obtaine the same,

She was sole heire.----N.

[963] Troublous. 1559. N. Troubles. 1563, 71. Troubles and daungers.

1578.

[964] And how by might, oft right. 1578.

[965] Duke Henry of Hereforde, called Bolenbrooke. 1578.

[966] Whan traytour like he. 1578.

[967] Kild him in prison, vsurped. 1578.

[968] The crowne by right came to Edmond Mortimer. 1578.

[969] And them of Lancaster. 1578.

[970] Houses. 1578.

[971]

And therefore thought good, to extirpe vs quight. 1578.

Against vs therefore he did all he might. N.

[972] To slay. N.

[973]

His cursed sonne ensued the father’s trade,

And kept my cosin guiltlesse in sure hold

For whom my father ful often did perswade,

With his allies and cousins, that they would

Their kinsman’s right mainteyn, and vphold,

And to depose by pollicy or power,

The heyre of him that was an vsurper. 1578.

[974] Whereof when Henry. 1578.

[975] Thys. 1559, 63, 71.

[976] Had heard, and knew of this conspiracye. 1578.

[977] Sayd that my father was the. 1578.

[978] French kyng hys ally. 1559, 63. French king Charles his alley. N.

[979]

And hyred by him to worke this trecherye,

For which at Hampton, as it came to passe,

His lyfe he lost, and there beheaded was. 1578.

[980] This. 1559.

[981] To, added. 1571.

[982]

Thus was the name of Mortimer extinct,

Whose right and title descended vnto me,

Being forst to lyue within a precinct,

For feare I would to other countries flee,

And so beeing at myne owne libertee,

Might haplye moue sedicion or strife,

For guilty hartes can leade no quiet lyfe. 1578.

[983] Whereby great frendes I had my part to take. 1578.

[984]

I by mariage,

Fowre fayre sonnes my yong wife to me bore,

Valiaunt. 1578.

[985] Brothers. 1578.

[986] As none of the kin had any time before. 1578.

[987] Were knights peerelesse. 1578.

[988]

---- Fortune’s frendly grace,

I first began to claime my lawful right,

And my chiefe foes with stoutnesse to deface. 1578.

[989] Al my hole force, I dayly did employ. 1578.

[990] The queene was wholy on hys syde. 1578.

[991] Stroke. 1559.

[992]

in Ireland I did byde,

Ful often driuen of force my head to hyde,

Yet through. 1578.

[993] This doutye duke most deare to king. 1578.

[994]

the queene her partie helde

Farre in the north, where ouermatcht with power,

My life I lost, in an vnlucky howre. 1578.

[995] Led, omitted. 1578.

[996] And, omitted. 1578.

[997] Got the. 1559, 78.

[998] Next I with kinsfolke. N.

[999]

I at the next was present in persone,

With my chiefe kin, whereas by one and one,

Our souldiers false withdrew away by night,

Vnto our foes and wee put all to flight. 1578.

[1000] Not. The text corrected by editions 1559 and 63. The others

read: no.

[1001] Came I. 1559, 63.

[1002] My. 1559, 63. Make clayme. 1571. New claime to make. 1578.

[1003] In the kinge’s seate I boldly. 1578.

[1004] Clayming the place, whereat. 1578.

[1005] At last to my demaund agreed. 1578.

[1006] But sith Henry had raigned than so long. 1578.

[1007] And to thend to make my title strong. 1578.

[1008] My, misprint. 1571. Apparant heire of England they me. 1578. In

each place heire apparant they me. N.

[1009]

I sped me straight northward, whereas she lay,

Meaning by force to cause her to obay. 1578.

[1010] Bosworth. 1559.

[1011]

She thereof warned, prepared a strong power,

And ere my men were altogether redye,

To Sandale came, where, in a dismal houre,

I like a beast, so rash was and so heddy

To trie fortune which alwaies is vnsteddy,

With thousands fiue of souldiers to assayle

The double number in campe to their auayle. 1578.

[1012] Th’infant. N.

[1013]

whyle my pore infant

Scarse twelue yere olde, sought way himselfe to saue,

That cruel Clifford, that fel bloudy tyrant,

While the pore chyld with tears did mercy craue,

With dagger sharp his hart a sunder claue. 1578.

[1014]

And set a crowne of paper theruppon,

Which for a sport he sent vnto the quene. 1578.

Which with a painted paper crowne thereon,

He for a present sent vnto the quene. N.

[1015] Might. 1559. To Yorke and set vp to be. 1578. To Yorke fast by,

where that it might. N.

[1016]

In some such place as theuis and traitors bene,

This mocke I had of fortune for rewarde,

After long hope that she wold me regard. 1578.

[1017]

Wherfore, Baldwin, see that thou set her forth

With her slipper pranks so as they may be known,

And warne all princes wel. 1578.

[1018] Sede. 1578

[1019] The gaine no surer but as of dice throwen. 1578.

[1020] Far, omitted. 1578. N.

[1021] Wrestling. 1578. Striuing. N.

[1022] But God aboue that kingdomes set in frame. 1578.

[1023] Chance. 1578.

[1024] Warne lordes no wise to wade. 1578.

[1025] Cause, saue their countrie’s defence. 1578.

[1026] And foes. 1559, 63.

[1027] My long. 1578.

[1028]

best than to tary time,

Low by the ground, than ouer high to clyme. 1578.

[1029] This. 1559, 63.

[1030] Quoth I. 1559, 63.

[1031] The nine and twenty daye. 1571.

[1032] Passage in brackets, added. 1571.

[1033] Now, added. 1571.

[1034] He ratleth out this rhime. 1578.

[1035] Lorde Clifforde for his extreame crueltie, came to a cruel,

straunge, and sodaine death. 1578.

[1036] Anno 1461, added. 1571.

[1037] His fault should hide. 1578.

[1038]

But sith pardon commeth by repentaunce,

Playnesse is best when truth is plainly tryde,

Open or hid, al faultes at length be spyed;

For couer fyer neuer so close within,

Yet out it will, and so will secret synne. 1578.

[1039] So brode. 1559, 63. Bruted and knowne abroade. 1578.

[1040] Cannot them reteyne. 1578.

[1041] Griefe, omitted. 1578.

[1042] Wherefore, Baldwin, write thou my. 1578.

[1043] Clifford I am that. 1578.

[1044] Craued. 1578.

[1045] My honour. 1559, 63, 71, 75. My fame, most. 1578.

[1046] Mercy. 1578.

[1047] I meane such wrath as works parental. 1578.

[1048] As these reuengers. 1578.

[1049] Know those people. 1578.

[1050] Which kyndle vs. 1578.

[1051] The father’s fault that wreake vpon. 1578.

[1052] To annoy. 1559, 63.

[1053] Friends for to destroy. N.

[1054] This caused me with bloudy. 1578.

[1055] A paper royal. 1559, 63, 71, 75.

[1056]

The father’s corps, dead lying on the ground,

The neck I cut asunder with my sword,

The bleding head I pight, by way of borde,

Vpon a speare, with a white paper crowne,

And in great scorne I sent it to Yorke towne. 1578.

[1057] Cruel deeds. 1578.

[1058] Of open shame, or of some bloudy death. 1578.

[1059] Blustring. 1578.

[1060] Heades. 1559, 63.

[1061]

For vengeance due doth sodaynly alight,

On cruel deedes the mischiefe to requite. 1578.

[1062] Fyght agaynst. 1559, 63. With this. N.

[1063]

Agaynst Edward, duke Richard’s eldest son,

My death I caught not far. 1578.

[1064] T’euent. N.

[1065]

To vent out heate traueiling in the sonne,

An headles arrowe percyd my throte boule,

Which parted straight my body from the soule. 1578.

[1066] His. 1578.

[1067] The lord Clifforde, either for heate or payne, putting of his

gorget, sodainly with an arrowe (as some say) without an hedde, was

striken into the throte, and incontinent rendered hys spirite, and the

erle of Westmerland’s brother, and all his company almost were there

slayn, at a place called Dintingdale, not far from Towton. This ende

had he which slew the yong erle of Rutland, knelyng on his knees: whose

yong sonne Thomas Clifforde was brought vp with a shepperd in poore

habite, and dissimuled behauior, euer in feare to publishe his lignage

or degre, till kyng Henry the vii. obtayned the croune and gat the

diademe. _Hall._

[1068] On the. 1559, 63.

[1069] To aske mercy at my last dying. 1578.

[1070] Wherefore, Baldwin, perswade the. 1578.

[1071] And. 1578.

[1072] To which they sayle through shame. 1559, 63, 71, 75.

[1073] To suffer endles payne. 1578.

[1074] Halleth. 1587. N.

[1075] Vnquyted left but had as. 1578.

[1076] Quod. 1559, 63.

[1077] Cruelty shewed to his young sonne by this mercilesse man, saue.

1578.

[1078] Destruction most part of the. 1578.

[1079] Richarde his. 1578.

[1080] Battaile at Towton in Yorkeshire, whereat besydes this Clifford,

were slayne the earles. 1578.

[1081] Besydes mo then 3000 men, the. 1578.

[1082] Keepe the common course. 1578.

[1083] Caused the erles of Devonshire and Oxforde wyth dyuers other.

1559, 63.

[1084] Other of king Henrie’s parte, to. 1578.

[1085] He, omitted. 1578.

[1086] For thyther came those lordes with. 1578.

[1087] Which they lost, wherein most. 1578.

[1088] The army slayne. 1559. The slayne. 1563. Were slaine. 1578.

[1089] What may bee noted by his ende. 1578.

[1090] An. 1470, added. 1571.

[1091] Euer. 1559, 63. Nere was nor nere. N.

[1092] Stories alwayes be not true. 1578.

[1093] Added some with better grace. 1578.

[1094] This. 1578.

[1095] Or shew them so as they were in some dout. 1578.

[1096] The, omitted. N.

[1097] Wherfore, Baldwin, either speake thou vpryght. 1578.

[1098] Thou heardst of. N.

[1099] They’ill. N.

[1100] Ere. N.

[1101] The. 1571, 75, 78.

[1102] As guiltie lose my head. N.

[1103] Foemen. N.

[1104] The. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.

[1105] To. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.

[1106] Me also from office. 1578.

[1107] The earle of Warwicke, through mallice and grudge. 1578.

[1108] Sith. 1578.

[1109] Some greedy gulles did beare. 1578.

[1110] Murder, and mischiefe done. 1578.

[1111] To. 1578.

[1112] Swalowed. 1578.

[1113] This Typtofte’s. 1578.

[1114] Harry. 1559, 63.

[1115] Kidsdale, misprint. 1587.

[1116] The. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.

[1117] The ded bodies of the erle and the marques were brought to

London in a coffin, and before they should be buried, by the space

of three dayes, they lay open visaged, in the cathedral church of S.

Paule, to thintent that al men might euidently perceiue, that thei

vnfainedly wer dedde least perauenture the common people hereafter,

heryng of some dissmulyng person, to take on him the name of therle of

Warwicke, thynkyng hym to be liuyng, might stirre a newe sedicion and

excite an vnware rebellion. The common people saied that the kyng was

not so iocound nor so ioyous, for the destruccion of therle, but he was

more sorowful and dolorous for the death of the marques, whom bothe

he knewe and it appered to other, to be inwardly his faithfull frend:

for whose onely sake he caused bothe their bodies to be with their

auncesters, solempnly entered at the priory of Bissam. _Hall._

[1118] Date added. 1571.

[1119] So I. 1559, 63.

[1120] Had held. N.

[1121] In hold. N.

[1122] Matched. 1559, 63.

[1123] Allyed me. 1559, 63.

[1124] Power we dyd from. 1559, 63.

[1125] He to go to. 1559, 63.

[1126] The earle. 1559, 63, 71.

[1127] In the edition of 1563 the text is “lo towle,” which in the

“Faultes escaped in the printing,” is corrected as above “to fowle.” In

those of 1571, 75, 78, 87, and Niccols, the text is “lo foule.”

[1128] The earle. 1559, 63, 71.

[1129] Both at length wer slayne. 1559, 63.

[1130] Harten. 1559, 63.

[1131] Nere. N.

[1132] But we ere lucke. N.

[1133] With force and number were. N.

[1134] Ere. M.

[1135] Souerayne. 1578.

[1136] Glory I was not bent. 1559, 63. Or good was I nere bent. N.

[1137] Passed. 1559, 63.

[1138] Olde. 1559, 63.

[1139] Duely. 1559, 63.

[1140] Paimentes wer. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.

[1141] And holpe vp Henry the better. 1559, 63. Vp Henry better. 1571,

75, 78. And holpe king Henrie better. N.

[1142] Weale. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.

[1143] Without signature, and therefore given to Baldwin.

[1144] Quod. 1559, 63.

[1145] In the fight. 1559, 63.

[1146] Cruelly. 1571, 75, 78.

[1147] Date added 1571.

[1148] Lycketh. 1559, 63.

[1149] May, omitted. 1578.

[1150] Soust. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.

[1151] Doust. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.

[1152] Unopprest. 1559.

[1153] Or. 1559.

[1154] To the. 1559, 63.

[1155] My. 1559.

[1156] Theyr. 1559, 63.

[1157] Time. 1559, 63.

[1158] Fro. 1571, 75, 78, 87.

[1159] She. 1559, 63.

[1160] In edition 1563 among the faults escaped in the printing “for”

is corrected to “from;” in all the subsequent editions the erroneous

text is followed.

[1161] Without signature, and attributed to Baldwin.

[1162] Date added. 1571.

[1163] Baldwin, with teares I. 1578. Baldwin I do thee. N.

[1164] Though vnneth. 1559, 63, 78.

[1165] Maketh. 1559, 63.

[1166] Not whych I drank of. 1559, 63. Not that I. N.

[1167] Not which I drancke, but wherein I was dround. 1578. I was

drown’d. N.

[1168] Was creature. 1559, 63. Man was. N.

[1169] Misprinted “preferred,” and corrected among the faults escaped

in edition 1563, but the erroneous text is continued in the other

editions.

[1170] Second childe. 1578.

[1171] Vncle. 1559, 63.

[1172] Begot faire Philip hight, whom. N.

[1173] Vnfylde. 1563.

[1174] The second Iohn who lost in youth hys lyfe. 1559, 63.

[1175] Was Glocester’s duke, N.

[1176] Did, added. 1571.

[1177] Edward the quarell styrd agayne. 1578.

[1178] Wan. 1578.

[1179]

That litle passinge on them that brought him in,

Forgat his frendes, and set at naught his kin. 1578.

[1180] His dealinge ingrate. 1578.

[1181]

From prison to enlarge Henry, the sely kinge,

Him to restore to kingdome. 1578.

[1182] To his ill practise the sooner to encline. 1578.

[1183]

Because the king to me was so vnkinde,

No canker sure, soft flesh doth fret so sore. 1578.

[1184] Wickedness. 1559.

[1185] By. 1559, 63.

[1186] Ere. N.

[1187] My sire. N.

[1188] We, omitted. 1571, 78.

[1189] To. 1559, 63.

[1190] Not for the cares which thereto bene annext. 1578.

[1191] That. 1578.

[1192] Raging. 1578, 87.

[1193] Haue, misprint. 1563, 71.

[1194] That some. N.

[1195] Giue. N.

[1196] On. 1571, 78.

[1197] Prophecies. 1559, 63.

[1198] Beleeu’d to losse. N.

[1199] To. 1559.

[1200] And she being dead I. N.

[1201] Of, wanting. 1563.

[1202] That then my. N.

[1203] To wed. N.

[1204] Hys hayer. 1559, 63. N.

[1205] Might. 1559. N.

[1206] Bereue my lyfe by any. 1578.

[1207] Nay butcher I may rightly say. 1578.

[1208] Tower, commaundinge all away. 1578.

[1209] In the xvii yere of king Edward, there fel a sparcle of priuy

malice betwen the king and his brother the duke of Clarence: whether it

rose of old grudges before tyme passed, or were it newly kyndled and

set a fyre by the quene or her bloud, which were euer mistrustyng and

priuely barkyng at the kynge’s lignage, or were he desirous to reigne

after his brother: to men that haue thereof made inquisicion, of suche

as were of no small authoritie in those daies, the certayntie therof

was hyd, and coulde not truely be disclosed, but by coniectures, which

as often deceyue the imaginacions of fantastical folke, as declare

truthe to them in their conclusion. The fame was that the kyng or the

quene, or bothe, sore troubled with a folysh prophesye, and by reason

therof began to stomacke and greuously to grudge against the duke.

The effect of which was, after kyng Edward should reigne, one whose

firste letter of his name should be a G. and because the deuel is wont

with suche wytchcraftes, to wrappe and illaqueat the myndes of men,

which delyte in such deuelyshe fantasyes, they sayd afterward that

that prophesie lost not his effect, when after king Edward, Glocester

vsurped hys kyngdome. Other allege this to be the cause of his death:

that of late, the olde rancor betwene them beyng newly reuiued (the

which betwene no creatures can be more vehement then betwene bretheren,

especially when it is fermely radicate) the duke beyng destitute of a

wife, by the meanes of lady Margaret duches of Burgoyn, hys syster,

procured to haue the lady Marye, doughter and heyre to duke Charles

her husbande, to bee geuen to hym in matrimony: whiche mariage kyng

Edward (enuyenge the felicitie of hys brother) bothe agayne sayed

and disturbed. Thys priuy displeasure was onely appeased, but not

inwardly forgotten, nor outwardly forgeuen, for that notwythstandyng a

seruaunt of the duke’s was sodainly accused (I can not saie of truth,

or vntruely suspected by the duke’s enemies) of poysonyng, sorcery, or

inchaunmente, and thereof condempned, and put to take the paynes of

death. The duke, whiche might not suffer the wrongfull condemnacion

of hys man (as he in hys conscience adiudged) nor yet forbere, nor

paciently suffer the vniust handelyng of hys trusty seruaunt, dayly

dyd oppugne and wyth yll woordes murmur at the doyng thereof. The kyng

muche greued and troubled with hys brother’s dayly querimonye, and

contynuall exclamacion, caused hym to be apprehended, and cast into the

Towre, where he beyng taken and adjudged for a traytor, was priuely

drowned in a but of Malmesey. _Hall._

[1210] All, omitted. 1578.

[1211] T’eschue. N.

[1212] Like blasts of winde which. 1578.

[1213] Without signature, by W. Baldwin.

[1214] Be now come. 1578.

[1215] Fowerth hys raygne. 1559, 63.

[1216] And some other day when your leasure will beste serue, let us

mete here altogether. 1578.

[1217] Quod. 1559, 63.

[1218] In his name, the true copy wherof, as hee wrote the same, I haue

here readye to be red. 1578.

[1219] The fourth, added. 1571.

[1220] xxiij. 1559, 63.

[1221] And yeres xxii bare scepter ryall. 1578.

[1222] _Et ecce._ 1578.

[1223] God in the world vniuersall. 1578.

[1224] But a. 1559, 63.

[1225] Great felicity. 1578.

[1226] With me had. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.

[1227] As, restored from the correction of the press, ed. 1563.

[1228] Nought els. 1578.

[1229] Ye. 1578.

[1230] Whan this was said, euery man tooke hys leave of other, and

departed: and I the better to acquyte my charge, recorded and noted all

such matters as they had willed me.

_Such is the conclusion of the edition of 1559 which is noted in

that of 1563 by there immediately following:_

Thus endeth the first parte.

_The new legends, in the edition of 1563, form a second part,

whereto is prefixed the following induction, which is abridged in

the edition of 1571, according to the text of the next page._

The seconde parte of the Mirrour for Magistrates. William Baldwyn

to the reader. The tyme beynge cum, whan (according to our former

appoyntment) we should meete together agayne to deuyse vpon the

tragicall affayres of our English rulers, I with suche storyes as I

had procured and prepared, went to the place wherein we had debated

the former parte. There founde I the prynter, and all the rest of

our frendes and furderers assembled and tarying for vs, save maister

Ferrers, who shortly after according to hys promys came thyther. Whan

we had blamed hym for hys long tarying, he satisfied vs fully with

this reasonable excuse. “I haue been letted,” quoth he, “dyuers wayes,

but chyeflye in taryeng for suche tragedyes, as many of our frendes

at myne instauns vndertoke to discours, wherof I am sure you wyll be

right glad: for moe wits are better then one, and diuersity of deuice

is alway most plesante. And although I have presentlye brought but a

fewe, becaus no moe are redye, yet shall you be sure hereafter to have

all the rest, which notable men haue vndertaken: wherof sum are half

doen, sum more, sum less, sum scarce begun, which maketh me thynke

that the dyuersytye of braynes in divisyng, is lyke the sundrynes of

beastes in engendryng: for sum wyttes are readye, and dispatch many

matters spedilye, lyke the conye which lyttereth every moneth: sum

other are slowe lyke the olyfaunt, skarce delyueryng any matter in x

yeares. I disprayse neyther of these byrthes, for both be naturall: but

I commende most the meane, whiche is neyther to slowe nor to swyft,

for that is lion-lyke, and therfore most noble. For the ryght poet

doth neyther through haste bring furth swift feble rabettes, neither

doth he weary men in lookyng for hys strong ioyntles olyphantes: but

in reasonable tyme he bryngeth furth a perfect and liuely lion, not a

bear whelp that must be longar in lyckyng than in breedynge. And yet

I knowe manye that dooe hyghly lyke that lumpysh deliuery. But every

man hath hys gyft, and the diversitie of our mindes maketh every thing

to be liked. And therfore while the oliphantes are in bredyng (to whom

I haue therfore geuen the latter storyes) I haue brought you such as

are allready doen, to be publyshed in the mean season, wherin there

nedeth no furder labour, but to place them in due order. Loe you,

Baldwyne, here is of myne owne the duke of Somerset slain at S. Albons

with other which I promysed, whom I wysh you shoulde place last: there

is also Shore’s wyfe, trimly handled by master Churchyard, which I

pray you place where you thynk most conuenient. Here are other also

of other mens, but they are rabettes. Do with them as you thynk best.

I would tary with a good wyll and helpe you in the order, save that

my busines is great and weighty, but I know you can do it wel inough,

and therfore, tyl we meet agayne I will leaue you.” Than deliuered he

the tragedyes vnto me, and departed. Dyuers of the rest lykyng hys

deuyse, vsed the lyke maner: for the prynter delyvered vnto me the

lord Hastynges penned by maister Dolman, and kyng Rychard the third,

compiled by Frauncis Segars. “Then,” sayd I “wel my masters sith you

thinke yt good to charge me with the order, I am contented therwith:

for as you haue doen, so have I lykewyse procured sum of my frendes to

ayd vs in our labour, for master Sackvyle hath aptly ordered the duke

of Buckkyngham’s oracion, and master Cavyl the black smythe’s, and

other.” “I pray you,” quoth one of the cumpany, “let vs heare them.”

“Nay soft,” quoth I, “we wyl take the cronycles, and note theyr places,

and as they cum so will we orderly reade them al.” To thys they all

agreed. Then one tooke the cronicle whom therfore we made, and call the

reder, and he began to rede the story of prince Edward called the fift

king of that name: and whan he came to the apprehending of the lord

Riuers: “Stay ther, I pray you,” quoth I, “for here is hys complaynt:

for the better vnderstanding wherof you must ymagin that he was

accompanyed with the lord Richard Graye, and with Hault and Clappam,

whose infortunes he bewayleth after this manner.”

[1231] The. 1578.

[1232] Anno 1483, added. 1571.

[1233] Cause. 1578.

[1234] That one Baldwin by help of. 1578.

[1235] Fallen. 1563, 71.

[1236] We stert. 1578.

[1237] Preaced forth among the ruful. 1578.

[1238] Attended. 1563.

[1239] Moved. 1578.

[1240] That. 1563.

[1241] This stanza omitted. N.

[1242] Theyr, restored from 1563. The others read: my.

[1243] The. N.

[1244] Wise and welthy. 1578.

[1245] Th’abuse. N.

[1246] For, omitted in the text, 1563, but corrected by the faults

escaped. The erroneous text followed. 1571, 75, 78.

[1247] The. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1248] The. N.

[1249] Enmies. 1578.

[1250] Espoused Bedford duchesse. N.

[1251] He ’spous’d. N.

[1252] So great. N.

[1253] Bene. 1578.

[1254] In. 1578.

[1255] In myne eye very. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1256] Sire. N.

[1257] In. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1258] The. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1259] The. 1563, 71.

[1260] Haue. 1578.

[1261] Foaded. 1563.

[1262] Nor. 1563.

[1263] Kiddesdale. 1587. N. The Northamptonshire men with diuers of

the northe-men by them procured, in this fury made them a capitayne,

and called hym Robyn of Riddisdale. _Hall._ Robert Hilliard who named

himselfe Robin of Ridsdale. _Stowe._

[1264] My. 1578.

[1265] Nor. N.

[1266] Awaked. 1578.

[1267] An. 1563.

[1268] For, omitted. N.

[1269] That or we must with other’s bloud. N.

[1270] Clowne. N.

[1271] Naturall. 1563. Owne. N.

[1272] To. misprint. 1563.

[1273] Of spryte. 1563. N.

[1274] Was. 1578.

[1275] Defende. 1563, 71.

[1276] Among the faults corrected in ed. 1563 ‘frendes’ is altered

to ‘fyendes.’ In this instance it is, perhaps, best to continue the

uncorrected text of the subsequent editions.

[1277] In faults corrected altered from ‘our’ to ‘your,’ ed. 1563.

False reading preserved, 1571, 75, 78, 87, and N.

[1278] The exces. 1563, 71.

[1279] Cry, ah. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1280] Proudest. 1563.

[1281] Loudest. 1563.

[1282] The. 1571.

[1283] Eyther prooue. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1284] Never. 1563, 71, 76, 78.

[1285] They have. 1563, 71.

[1286] I blest me, rose. N.

[1287] Them, corrected by ed. 1563, 75, 78. Him, 1571, 87. N.

[1288] Theyr, omitted. N.

[1289] To agree. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1290] Where after we had a while in 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1291] At dynner, the duke of Glocester sent a dyshe from his owne

table to the lord Ryuers, praiyng him to bee of good chere, and all

shoulde be well: he thanked him and prayed the messenger to beare it to

his nephiewe the lorde Richard with like wordes whom he knewe to haue

nede of comfort, as one to whom suche aduersite was straunge, but he

hymselfe had bene all his daies ennured therwith, and therefore could

beare it the better. But for al this message the duke of Gloucester

sent the lorde Ryuers, the lord Richard, and sir Thomas Vaughan, and

sir Richarde Hawte, into the north parties into diuerse prisones, but

at last, al came to Pomfret where they all foure were beheaded without

iudgement. _Hall._

[1292] Without signature: supposed by W. Baldwin.

[1293] Had. 1563.

[1294] Words added. 1571.

[1295] The 13 of June, Anno 1483. added. 1571.

[1296] Loanes. 1563, 87. Loyns 1571.

[1297]

I am that Hastings, whose to hasty death

They blame that know wherefore I lost my breath,

Wyth others fearinge least my headlesse name

Bee wrongde, by partiall bruite of flatteringe fame:

Hearinge, O Baldwin, that thou mean’st to penne,

The lyues, and fals of English noblemen,

Myselfe here present, do present to thee,

My life, my fal, and forced destenye. 1575, 78. N.

[1298] Drown’d. 1575, 78. N.

[1299] Take this for. 1575, 78. N.

[1300] Distracteth. 1563, 71.

[1301] Infecteth. 1563, 71.

[1302] Dowteth. 1563.

[1303] Tyckle, from correction of faults escaped. 1563. Title. 1571.

[1304] Stanzas 3, 4, and 5, omitted 1575, 78, and by Niccols.

[1305] The heauens hye and earthly vale belowe. 1575, 78. N.

[1306] So to me. 1575, 78. N.

[1307] Make. N.

[1308] Wholye. 1563.

[1309] Rayseth. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1310]

See here the difference of a noble minde,

Some vertue raiseth, some by vice haue climde. N.

[1311] Within themselues their. 1578. N.

[1312] Endeth hit. 1563, 71, 75.

[1313] Or how may that, that hath no end, be vndone? 1575, 78. N.

[1314] Thother. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.

[1315] Flatterie, so soone they rue. N.

[1316] Fro. N.

[1317] Discended. 1563. Which once stept downe. 1578. N.

[1318] Rayseth. 1575, 78.

[1319] To excuse. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1320] Helpe. N.

[1321] As death in later. N.

[1322] Shineth. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1323] Or. 1578. N.

[1324] Pleasing. 1575, 78. N.

[1325] That. 1575, 78. N.

[1326] These faults except, if so my life thou skan. 1575, 78. N.

[1327] So kind to all and so. N.

[1328] Rule. 1575, 78. N.

[1329] Chaunging. 1575, 78. N.

[1330] Admir’d through Christendome. N.

[1331] My prince’s brother did him then forgo. 1575, 78. N.

[1332] Lynked. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1333] Nor. 1575. 78. N.

[1334] Beare any other. N.

[1335] Awayt. 1563, 71, 75, 78. W’await. N.

[1336] Further. N.

[1337] And vse best meanes Edward in to bring. N.

[1338] Tide, to bar. N.

[1339] Sayles, misprint. 1587.

[1340] Surginge. 1575, 78. N.

[1341] Erst mought. 1563. Erst might. 1571. Late might. 1575, 78. N.

[1342] Then ghastly Greekes erst brought to. 1575, 78. N.

[1343] Maye. 1563, 75, 78. N. Might. 1571.

[1344] Might. N.

[1345] Myght. 1578. N.

[1346] That. 1575, 78.

[1347] Heauye. 1575, 78. N.

[1348] A fleete. N.

[1349] Flyeth. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1350] Breakes. N.

[1351] Syngeth, is the text of 1563, and corrected to ‘swimmeth,’ as

a fault escaped. It stands singeth, 1571, 87. Swyndgthe, 1575, 78.

Swindg’th. N.

[1352] Heauy. 1575, 78. N.

[1353] Swyne, text of 1563, corrected in faults escaped as above. The

false reading repeated in all the five subsequent editions.

[1354] Hare. 1575, 78. N.

[1355] Pursueth, before she flerteth. 1563, 71, 75, 78. Flert. N.

[1356] Pricketh. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.

[1357] Afore. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1358] Stayeth. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1359] Agaynst. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1360] Reserued. 1563, 71, 75. Reserues. N.

[1361] Welcom’d by. N.

[1362] Suffyseth. 1563, 71, 75, 78. Sufficeth say. N.

[1363] My prince’s foe. 1575, 78. N.

[1364] Spyced. 1563. Staind. 1575, 78. N.

[1365] Bloudy for warre. 1578. N.

[1366] Liue. N.

[1367] Arms. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.

[1368] Glocester, Clarence, I and Dorset slewe. N.

[1369] His bones, shall broile for bloud which he hath spilt. N.

[1370] Deadly. N.

[1371] Attaynteth 1563, 71, 75, 78. Attaint’th. N.

[1372] Wicked. N.

[1373] As. 1575, 78. N.

[1374] All men. 1575, 78. Of men. N.

[1375] Whoe fyrst dyd such. 1563.

[1376] As they merite well who do men’s liues preserue. 1575, 78. N.

[1377] If those therefore, 1575, 78. N.

[1378] Is he. 1575, 78. N.

[1379] Old is the practise of such bloudy strife. 1575, 78. N.

[1380] Abhorreth. 1575, 78. N.

[1381] Loue. 1575, 78. N.

[1382] ‘To cloake thy covert,’ 1563.

[1383] Difeldasd. 1563, 71.

[1384] My, wanting. 1563, 75, 78. N.

[1385] Troubled. 1575, 78. N.

[1386] Wanteth. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.

[1387] Royall. 1575, 78. N.

[1388] Enfants. 1575, 78.

[1389] Insaciate. 1575, 78. N.

[1390]

Onely because our prince displeasde we sawe

With him, we slue him straight before all lawe. 1575, 78. N.

[1391] The 37th stanza first inserted in ed. 1575, and only repeated in

1578, and Niccols.

[1392] Before. 1575, 78. N.

[1393] The. 1563, 75, 78. N.

[1394] Soareth. 1563, 75, 78. N.

[1395] To thothers. 1575, 78. N.

[1396] Mine onely trust. 1575, 78. N.

[1397] Loued. 1571, 75.

[1398] The, misprint. 1587.

[1399] Least. 1571.

[1400] So. 1571.

[1401] Soone, not yet to soone mistrust. 1575, 78. N.

[1402] Twyneth betwyxt, and steareth. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1403] Loveth. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.

[1404]

In frendship soueraigne it is as mithridate

Thy frend to loue as one whome thou mayst hate. 1575, 78. N.

[1405] The infamous. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.

[1406] Light. 1575, 78. N.

[1407] Hap me without his. 1575, 78. N.

[1408] Tickle. 1575, 78. N.

[1409] The. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.

[1410] When as by no meanes frendship. 1575, 78. N.

[1411] Force behold they me assailde. 1575, 78. N.

[1412] No place is. 1575, 78.

[1413] My bloud must repay. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.

[1414] Parted. 1563, 75, 78. N.

[1415] Or better mynded. 1575, 78. N.

[1416] The message and other incidents, in the remainder of this

legend, are closely versified from Hall’s Chronicle, but too long to be

given here. Compare with reign of Edward the Fift.

[1417] Cannot matche. 1575, 78.

[1418] Construe. N.

[1419] Thinke appall’d. 1575, 78. Might thinke appall’d. N.

[1420] Pledeth. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.

[1421] Seruyce. 1563.

[1422] Might. N.

[1423] Fayned 1575, 78. N.

[1424] He. 1563.

[1425] Meanes. 1575, 78. N.

[1426] God didst suffer so. 1575, 78. N.

[1427] Heady. 1563.

[1428] For that they are neare to. 1575, 78. N.

[1429] Hyghest. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.

[1430] Laughed. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.

[1431] The excesse. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.

[1432] Hane. 1587.

[1433] Foule, misprint. 1587.

[1434]

Had not the Troyans hares foolishe forthright eyen?

But since the time was come that I should dye. 1575, 78. N.

[1435] Was. 1575, 78. N.

[1436] Nay. N.

[1437] Within the which I. 1575, 78.

[1438] Thy. 1587.

[1439] ‘Now,’ restored from list of faults escaped in ed. 1563. It is

omitted in every edition.

[1440] Tending 1571, 87.

[1441] Doe neuer care. 1575, 78. N.

[1442] The passage from the line beginning “That twinckling sterres,”

to the one ending “at the poorest gates,” (l. 4, st. 92, p. 305,) which

commences fo. Cx and concludes page b, of fo. Cxiii, forming sheet O

in the edition of 1563, was, by some error, omitted in the editions of

1571 and 1587. Perhaps the edition of 1571 was printed from a copy of

the preceding one, wanting that sheet, and that of 1587 taken from the

reprint, without the deficiency being discovered. The above text, for

the lines restored, is from the edition of 1578.

[1443] Taxe. 1563.

[1444] It, misprint. 1578. N.

[1445] But euen last fyne. 1563.

[1446] He. N.

[1447] Stately. N.

[1448] Might. N.

[1449] For he. 1563.

[1450] Ye. 1563.

[1451] That thus maddeth his. 1563.

[1452] Is, misprint. 1578.

[1453] Furrwed, misprint. 1578.

[1454] What earned they, whoe me. 1563.

[1455] Might. N.

[1456] Iohn Baptists’ dishe. 1563.

[1457] His. 1563.

[1458] Downe tottreth whoe. 1563.

[1459] Of. 1563.

[1460] No. 1563.

[1461] Thyne. 1563.

[1462] From dunghill couche vpsterte. 1563.

[1463] Resollve. 1563.

[1464] Hit dissolueth. 1563.

[1465] And. 1563.

[1466] Fleeteth. 1563, 75.

[1467] Wynd doth. 1563.

[1468] Then fed they fame by. 1563.

[1469] Nought. 1575, 78.

[1470] Spare his quyted fame. 1563.

[1471] Might. N.

[1472] End of the passage omitted. See note, p. 296.

[1473] By this sloape. 1575, 78. N.

[1474] Whose hasty death, if it doe any. 1575, 78. N.

[1475] Her, misprint. 1587.

[1476] The aged. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.

[1477] Godly. 1575, 78. N.

[1478] To engraue. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.

[1479]

Who spareth not speaking, with danger of his bloud:

Yet, loe, this noble lord did thinke it good

To cleare the innocent, not to spare to speake,

Although his shoulders with his bloud should reake. 1575, 78. N.

[1480] Who. 1563, 71, 75, 78. N.

[1481] Seruice honour to. 1575, 78. N.

[1482] Tracke. 1575, 78. N.

[1483] Iohn Dolman. Ritson, in the _Bibliographia Poetica_, art.

Dolman, has mentioned a manuscript note upon this legend describing it

as “evidently the worst in the collection.” That note is written in a

copy of the edition by Niccols, now in the possession of Mr. Heber, and

being so quoted has given it more importance than it is worth; but,

for the sake of juxta position, the whole is now given. “The stile of

this legend, which is evidently the worst in the collection, and in

this edition much alter’d from the three former publications of it,

convinced me the author of it was not _Drayton_. By the second edition

of these poems, printed A. 1563, this poem appears to have been penned

by Maister _Dolman_.” Whatever credit may be given to this writer as

a critic, his statement is too erroneous to be of any value, as the

principal alterations made by Dolman are inserted in the edition of

1575, and the above signature is not to be found in that of 1563, but

first appears in 1571.

[1484] Q. 1563.

[1485] Purposed with him selfe to. 1563.

[1486] This celebrated poem was reprinted in Mrs. Cooper’s

_Muse’s Library_, 1738, from the edition of 1610. By Capell in

the _Prolusions_, 1760. from those of 1563 and 71, with the text

modernized. And also by Warton in the _History of English Poetry_,

1781, Vol. III. from the edition of 1610, who adopted most of the

emendations of Capell. Also, in Anderson’s Poets, Vol. I. 1793; from

the first edition.

[1487] In two copies of the edition of 1563 is the following variation.

In the title one has “The Induction:” the other “Mayster Sackuille’s

Induction.”

[1488] Hastning. N.

[1489] This line was also altered in the first edition while at press,

as in one copy the reading is,

“The tapets torne and euery _tree_ downe blowen:”

and is uniformly repeated in the subsequent editions, which also adopt

the running title of “_Mayster Sackuille’s Induction_,” following the

copy where the alteration to “_tree_” appears, though the head title

conforms to the other copy. It therefore remains uncertain which was

intended as the correction. “_Bloom_” is the reading preferred by

Capell and Warton, and the context appears to confirm the adoption.

In a preceding line the blustering blasts of winter are said to have

bared the trees, and the poet goes on to describe that the cold had

pierced the green, had rent and overthrown the mantles of the groves,

had torn the tapets, or tapistry, and blown down every bloom. In this

picture there is not any thing extravagant, or beyond the usual effects

of winter, whereas were every tree down blown, it would amount to a

hurricane, and not to the common decay of nature despoiling the earth

of the flowers wherewith it was clad by summer, and as described by the

poet in the following stanza. J. H.

I would prefer “_tree_” notwithstanding. _Bloom_ applies to spring, not

autumn. E. B.

[1490] Walk. Capell.

[1491] The remainder of this stanza and the next omitted by Capell. In

Warton the omission includes also the three following stanzas.

[1492] Night’s black chare. N. Nightys chair. Capell.

[1493] Leafe. Cooper.

[1494] Beams. Warton.

[1495] Bright starres. N. Nightys stars. Capell.

[1496] Omitted by Warton.

[1497] This. 1563. Capell.

[1498] Furth from her iyen. 1563. Capell, Warton.

[1499] ‘And,’ restored from ed. 1563. So Capell.

[1500] Swollen her eyes. Capell.

[1501] Aparte 1563.

[1502] Betime. 1563. Capell, Warton.

[1503] The infernall. 1563, 71. Capell.

[1504] Lethe’s. Capell, Warton.

[1505] Thing. Capell.

[1506] The next eight stanzas omitted by Warton.

[1507] Calstell. 1571, 87.

[1508] Gathered spirites. 1563.

[1509] T’auale. N.

[1510] Spirits. 1563, 71.

[1511] ‘Stike’ is altered to ‘syke’ in the list of faults escaped 1563,

a correction now first adopted.

[1512] Iyen. 1563. Eyen. Capell.

[1513] Shewe. 1563.

[1514] Fortune. 1563, 71. Capell.

[1515] Silly. 1563.

[1516] Capell suggests reading ‘be bold.’

[1517] World’s certainty. 1571, 75, 78.

[1518] Paced. 1563.

[1519] Imbraced. 1563.

[1520] Traced. 1563.

[1521] Trauayle end. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1522] Arose. 1563.

[1523] And. 1571, 87. N.

[1524] A dreadfull lothly. N.

[1525] The ayer. 1563. I’the air. Capell.

[1526] Pestilent. 1563. Pestlent. 1571, 75, 78, 87. Noysome. N. Noysom

vapours. Warton.

[1527] Jer. 1578.

[1528] Tost. Capell.

[1529] The, omitted. 1571, 75, 78, 87. N.

[1530] Shoulders. 1563.

[1531] Full dayntlye would he fare. 1563. Capell.

[1532] But. Capell. Warton.

[1533] The, omitted. N.

[1534] That chance. Warton. Capell.

[1535] Esteemed. Warton. Capell.

[1536] Broken. 1563. Capell. Warton.

[1537] But, an’ the. Warton. Capell.

[1538] His, omitted. N. Her. Capell.

[1539] Neuer. 1563, 71.

[1540] Sometimes. Warton.

[1541] Bread. Warton.

[1542] O. Capell. Warton.

[1543] Ne. 1571, 75, 78.

[1544] Shrinkt. N.

[1545] Glittering. 1571.

[1546] Look’d. Capell. Warton.

[1547] Kings. 1563.

[1548] His kings, his princes, peers. Capell. Warton.

[1549] Stanzas 59, 60, and 61, omitted by Capell and Warton.

[1550] Trebery, corrected to Treby, in faults escaped, ed. 1563. The

error uniformly continued in every subsequent edition.

[1551] Thebes too I saw. Capell. Warton.

[1552] God. 1571, 87. N.

[1553] ‘Perfore,’ ed. 1563. The others have ‘perforce.’ A similar line

in the legend of Lord Hastings, see stanza 27, l. 2, p. 284.

[1554] O Troy, Troy, _Troy_; amended by Capell and repeated by Warton.

[1555] ‘Vpspring,’ corrected by ed. 1563. So Capell and Warton. All the

others read vprising.

[1556] Greek. Capell.

[1557] Liuelike. 1563.

[1558] My. 1571, 75, 78.

[1559] Boote. 1571, 75, 78.

[1560] The vnwonted. 1563, 71. Capell.

[1561] The ayer. 1563, 71. Capell.

[1562] Whils. 1571, 75, 78. Whiles. Capell.

[1563] Passed by. 1563, 71.

[1564] Instead of the 74th stanza the four following are substituted by

Niccols, who has so closely imitated his author that Warton has given

the first two stanzas as genuine.

Thence did we passe the three-fold emperie,

To th’ vtmost bounds, where _Radamanthus_ raignes,

Where proud folke waile there woefull miserie,

Where dreadfull din of thousand dragging chaines,

And balefull shriekes of ghosts in deadly paines

Tortur’d eternally are heard most brim

Through silent shades of night so darke and dim.

From hence vpon our way we forward passe,

And through the groues and vncoth paths we goe,

Which leade vnto the _Cyclops_ walles of brasse:

And where that maine-broad flood for aye doth floe,

Which parts the gladsome fields from place of woe,

Whence none shall euer passe t’_Elizium_ plaine,

Or from _Elizium_ euer turne againe.

With _Sorrow_ for my guide, as there I stood,

A troope of men the most in armes bedight,

In tumult clustred ’bout both sides the flood;

’Mongst whom, who were ordaind t’eternall night,

Or who to blissefull peace and sweet delight

I wot not well, it seem’d that they were all

Such as by death’s vntimely stroke did fall.

Some headlesse were, some body, face and hands,

With shamefull wounds despoil’d in euery part.

Some strangled, some that dide in captiue bands,

Some smothred, drown’d, some stricken through the hart

With fatall steele, all drown’d in deadly smart:

Of hastned death, with shrikes, sobs, sighs and teares,

Did tell the woes of their forepassed yeares.

[1565] Pewed. 1571, 75, 78.

[1566] O. Capell.

[1567] Warton has given this stanza, in a note, as from the edition of

1559, but the Induction was first printed 1563.

[1568] Omitted by Warton.

[1569] The last four lines not in Warton.

[1570] Forlorne. Warton.

[1571] Layne. Warton.

[1572] In. 1563.

[1573] Warily. N.

[1574] Swaye. 1563.

[1575] And gayn. 1563.

[1576] The vnsuerty. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1577] Season. 1578.

[1578] That he him nere in. N.

[1579] Than. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1580] Liued. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1581] Wistand. N.

[1582] Matchlesse. N.

[1583] ‘O,’ added. 1587. N.

[1584] Crieth. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1585] Murderers. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1586] Traytours. 1571, 75, 78. N.

[1587] Auenge. N.

[1588] Suffereth. 1578. N.

[1589] The examples. 1563.

[1590] Murdered. 1578.

[1591] On. 1563.

[1592] Longer. N.

[1593] Folly. 1587. N.

[1594] Pressed. 1563.

[1595] Murders. N.

[1596] Gleluis. 1578.

[1597] Deepely graue. 1578.

[1598] Startlesse. 1571, 75, 78.

[1599] Grieved. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1600] Furth brought. 1563.

[1601] ‘Strayned’ is the reading of 1563. All the other editions have

stayned.

[1602] By. 1563.

[1603] T’encrease. N.

[1604] Searcheth. 1563, 71 75, 78.

[1605] Foreyrked. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1606] Loth’d. N.

[1607] Agriefde. 1575, 78. Agrieud. N.

[1608] Sauag’d. N.

[1609] Never. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1610] So foule. N.

[1611] Nay. N.

[1612] Wealaway. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1613] Nay. N.

[1614] Could tourne. 1563.

[1615] Nay. N.

[1616] Hard to. 1563.

[1617] Cursed case. 1763.

[1618] Sillye. 1563. N.

[1619] That. 1563.

[1620] Basely. N.

[1621] Count’st. N.

[1622] Inconstancye. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1623] The vnstable. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1624] Recur’d. N.

[1625] Ben. N.

[1626] Livedst. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1627] They, misprint. 1587.

[1628] Might. N.

[1629] Heauens. N.

[1630] Mate. 1575, 78. N.

[1631] Whych. 1563.

[1632] Loved. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1633] And every. 1563.

[1634] Sown’d. N.

[1635] Lyeth. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1636] Rufull. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1637] Was his. 1578.

[1638] Spirites. 1563.

[1639] Thy. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1640] Gevest. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1641] Trone despyse. 1563.

[1642] That. 1563.

[1643] The vnhappy. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1644] ‘Place,’ reading of 1563. Day. 1571, 75, 78, 87. N.

[1645] Vouchsafe. N.

[1646] Shalt thou not. 1563.

[1647] The eternall. 1563, 71 75, 78.

[1648] May. 1563.

[1649] And. 1563.

[1650] Halfe, wanting. 1563.

[1651] Thy. 1563.

[1652] ‘Hugie,’ the reading of 1563. Huge. 71, 75, 78, 87. Dolefull. N.

[1653] Thy daughter strucken with the leprosie. N.

[1654] Graule. 1571, 75, 78. Groule. N.

[1655] Lyved. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1656] Whan. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1657] Bidden. N.

[1658] Mishap. 1578.

[1659] By. 1563, 71, 75.

[1660] Initials added 1571. T. Saxuill. N.

[1661] Q. 1563.

[1662] Sayd one. 1578.

[1663] Q. 1563.

[1664] Q. 1563. Quod. 1575.

[1665] My thynke. 1563, 71, 75.

[1666] Q. 1563.

[1667] Sayd one. 1578.

[1668] Other hand. 1563.

[1669] I say, beware. N.

[1670] Mule’s. 1587.

[1671] Though Juuenal so be, that. 1563.

[1672] That doth make. N.

[1673] Maketh. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1674] Ere. N.

[1675] And therefore lothe we taunters. 1563.

[1676] Whose minde thereby to. 1563.

[1677] Amend. 1563.

[1678] To guyde. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1679] Moe. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1680] The affections of the wycked sorte. 1563.

[1681]

Theyr sinnes, all hate to heare them touched,

Howe covertly so ever they be couched. 1563.

[1682] Th’intent. N.

[1683] Is godly. 1563.

[1684] From. N.

[1685] Doubtfull. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1686] Well may. 1578.

[1687] Which rymed that whych made full many mourne. 1563.

[1688] The kynge himselfe of. 1563.

[1689] His faultors faultes. 1563.

[1690] Was. 1571, 75, 78.

[1691] The chyefe was Catesby whom. 1563.

[1692] Whom I did call. N.

[1693] Tyll he vsurped the crowne, he. 1563.

[1694] So many thousandes as they have destroyed. 1563.

[1695] Laweles dealynges al men dyd. 1563.

[1696] _Pessima._ 1571, 75, 78.

[1697] _Quis vetat?_ None, save clymers stil in _ferum_, 1563.

[1698] Satyr. 1563.

[1699] Who rudely named were. 1563.

[1700] Me wyth most haynous traytrous cryme. 1563.

[1701] And strangled fyrst in. 1563. And strangled then in. N.

[1702] Ore. N.

[1703] And so sore. 1578.

[1704]

This wicked iudgement vexed me so sore

That I exclamed agaynst. 1563.

[1705] The ravenyng dog. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1706] The rat lord Ratclyve. 1563.

[1707] Touch thinges which they wish. 1563.

[1708] No flatterer, no bolsterer of vyce. 1563.

[1709] From. N.

[1710] Vnto. 1563.

[1711] An, misprint. 1587.

[1712] The heauens hye. 1563.

[1713]

He must (as she had) have one onlye iye,

Regarde of truth, that nought maye leade awrye. 1563.

[1714] And that no power or fansie do him force. 1563.

[1715] Must also. 1563.

[1716] Bruse. N.

[1717] To heauen thereto to feede and rest. 1563.

[1718] Of skyll and hope. 1563.

[1719] That (_than_) al the ioyes which worldly wyts desyre. 1563.

[1720] He must be also nymble. 1563.

[1721] The. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1722] Thinges notable he. 1563. Impart he. 1571, 75, 78.

[1723] These propertyes yf I had well consydered. 1563.

[1724] From the stormy blast. 1563.

[1725] Bin cast. N.

[1726] But trusting vaynely to the tyrauntes. 1563. Trust vnto a

tyrant’s. 1571, 75, 78.

[1727] Had bene allowed plea at any barre. 1563.

[1728] Ryght. 1563.

[1729] Tyrants t’is. N.

[1730] That with the lewde save this no order was. 1563.

[1731] Where this is. 1563.

[1732] Or. 1563.

[1733] Their libertyes. 1563.

[1734] This auncient freedome ought. 1563.

[1735] Of slaunderers iust lawes. 1563.

[1736] Seemed euel sayd. 1563.

[1737] Foolyshe. 1563.

[1738] To abase. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1739] Of traytrous actes abhord of God. 1563.

[1740] They arraynde and staynde me with that shameful crime. 1563.

[1741] Vse. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1742] Rebuke thou vice, so. 1563.

[1743] His. 1563.

[1744] His sinfull prankes. 1563.

[1745] Warne poetes therfore not to. 1563.

[1746] Kepe them in the streames. 1563.

[1747] Vnto. 1571, 75, 78.

[1748] Freedome save them from extreames. 1563.

[1749] This legend without signature. Attributed to Baldwin.

[1750] Q. 1563.

[1751] Destructions. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[1752] Eternal. 1563.

[1753] Q. 1563.

[1754] Q. 1563.

[1755] Q. 1563.

[1756] Date added. 1571.

[1757] Murdred. 1563, 75.

[1758] I conspyred. 1563.

[1759] Spyrytes. 1563.

[1760] To cruel cursed. 1563.

[1761] Lived. 1563, 71, 75.

[1762] Attempt. 1578.

[1763] Proffer ready for my. 1563.

[1764] Q. 1563.

[1765] Rendered. 1563, 71, 75.

[1766] The. 1563.

[1767] Rufull. 1563.

[1768] Torne. 1563.

[1769] Bloudy. 1563.

[1770] His life also from him I raught. 1563.

[1771] Were. 1563.

[1772] Silly. 1563.

[1773] Do. 1563, 71, 75.

[1774] Ful euel. 1563, 71, 75.

[1775] Happy happe. 1563.

[1776] And. 1563.

[1777] Therle. 1563, 71, 75.

[1778] Added ed. 1571 for Francis Segar. This legend omitted by Niccols.

[1779] Q. 1563.

[1780] The. 1563.

[1781] Q. 1563.

[1782] Yll. 1563.

[1783] In the editions of 1571, 75, 78, the legends of Michael Joseph

and Jane Shore were transposed, the latter being made to conclude the

volume. The induction to the first in 1563 is in few words, nearly the

same as the above conclusion. It follows: “When they had sayde their

myndes herein allowyng it very well, they willed me also to reade the

blacke Smyth. “Wyth a good wyll,” quod I, “but fyrst you must ymagine

that you see hym standynge on a ladder, ouershryned wyth the Tyborne, a

meete trone for all suche rebelles and trayters: and there corageouslye

sayenge as folowethe.”

[1784] Date added. 1571.

[1785] Then is the Bayard blind. N.

[1786] Then do the bold in mind. N.

[1787] Is. 1563, 71. N.

[1788] Swimming carelesse of. N.

[1789] Starest and lookest. 1563, 71.

[1790] Sawest. 1563, 71.

[1791] Boldie. N.

[1792] Nature planted so in. N.

[1793] The, wanting. 1563. N.

[1794] Awdley, one of birth. N.

[1795] My. 1563.

[1796] Beginth. 1563. Beginneth. 1571.

[1797] Do. 1563, 71.

[1798] Vertues. N.

[1799] Be. 1563, 71.

[1800] Weale. N.

[1801] Inforst. 1563, 71.

[1802] Proue it vntrue. N.

[1803] Rebell heretofore or since. N.

[1804] Purpose. N.

[1805] He entred is to. N.

[1806] Seeke. N.

[1807] With foolish men so falsehood is. N.

[1808] That faith is sinne. N.

[1809] Soldiers out. N.

[1810] To praise. N.

[1811] Hopes. N.

[1812] They ’ncrease. N.

[1813] Through. N.

[1814] Christen. 1563, 71.

[1815] Assur’d. N.

[1816] God’s fierce wrath. N.

[1817] Hear’st reason. N.

[1818] Think’st. N.

[1819] Lacked. 1563, 71.

[1820] Hole. 1563, 71.

[1821] Others. 1563.

[1822] Flamoke both agreed together. N.

[1823] Breake bondage now. N.

[1824] To purchase fame. N.

[1825] Counted was a lout. N.

[1826] Man his brother did entice. N.

[1827] Each one so wedded was vnto. N.

[1828] With sword. N.

[1829] Men rebell there. N.

[1830] Sort. N.

[1831] They beare the port. N.

[1832] Crie vnto the rest. N.

[1833] For that he there did sit in high commission. N.

[1834] Wels and were. N.

[1835] He had. N.

[1836] ’Twill. N.

[1837] From vs by night away together straid. N.

[1838] City and with. N.

[1839] Did intend the. N.

[1840] Fully bent to N.

[1841] Were farthest from our habitation. N.

[1842] Were slaughtered all as. N.

[1843] Arm’d. N.

[1844] Led as. N.

[1845] After doome. N.

[1846] An, wanting. 1563.

[1847] Al torne, 1563.

[1848] Reuers’d. N.

[1849] He (the king) caused the Lord Audeleigh to be drawen from

Newgate to the Towre hie in a cote of his awne armes peinted vpon

paper, reuersed and al to torne, and there to be behedded the xxviii

day of Juyn. And Thomas Flamock and Myghell Joseph he commaunded after

the fassyon of treytours to be drawen, hanged and quartred. _Hall._

[1850] With Flamoke I and. N.

[1851] Lookt. N.

[1852] I should haue fame. N.

[1853] This Mighell Joseph, surnamed the black smyth, one of the

capiteins of this donge hill and draffe sacked ruffians, was of such

stowte stomack and haute courage, that at the same time that he was

drawen on the herdle toward his death, he sayd, as men do reporte:

“That for this myscheuous and facinorous acte, he should haue a name

perpetual and a fame permanent and immortal.” So (you may perceaue)

that desire and ambicious cupidite of vaine glorie and fame, enflameth,

and encourageth aswel poore and meane persones, as the heartes of great

lords and puyssaunt princes to trauayle and aspire to the same. _Hall._

[1854] Seruant happier. N.

[1855] Mightie men. N.

[1856] The loftie towre. N.

[1857] Toile. N.

[1858] Griefe. N.

[1859] Baldwin, therefore do. N.

[1860] For president to. N.

[1861] The talent well. N.

[1862] One’s. N.

[1863]

Thrice happie are those men, yea, blest is hee,

Who can contented serue in his degree. N.

[1864] Signature added. 1571.

[1865] Q. 1563.

[1866] Q. 1563.

[1867] Good pleasure. 1563.

[1868] Q. 1563.

[1869] “But because the night is cum, I will trouble you no longer, I

haue certayne rabets here but they are not wurth the readinge. I will

cause these which you haue allowed, to be printed as soon as I may

conueniently.” This sayd we take leue eche of other, and so departed.

1563.

This sentence concludes the edition of 1563. The above continuance of

the induction, added by Higgins in 1587, to introduce his own legend

of sir Nicholas Burdet, then first printed, and who adopted Holinshed

instead of Hall for his authority. See _Chronicles temp. Hen. VIth.

passim_.

[1870] If erst in king’s affaires. N.

[1871] Warr’d. N.

[1872] Prince’s warre. N.

[1873] See Holinshed’s Chronicles, Vol. III. p. 345, ed. 1808.

[1874] Nerethelesse. N.

[1875] Proue. N.

[1876] Wondrous. N.

[1877] Quoth. N.

[1878] Dispatcht. N.

[1879] Quoth. N.

[1880] Pierce. N.

[1881] This legend first published in ed. 1587.

[1882] M. H. i. e. Maister Higins.

[1883] This and the following legend are only inserted in the edition

of 1587. There are copies of both in the Harleian MS. 2252, and not

improbable that which furnished Higgins with his copy. The notes will

shew the alterations.

[1884] Crye. MS.

[1885] Began. MS.

[1886] Sore aferde. MS.

[1887] Sawe hee had a berd. MS.

[1888] My, wanting. MS.

[1889] Lackyd. MS.

[1890] Order my realme I cowde with a whyte wand. MS.

[1891] Life, wanting. MS.

[1892] A, wanting. MS.

[1893] Chaungeth aye me. MS.

[1894] My. MS.

[1895] To folow yo^r apetyte I dyde as ye me badde. MS.

[1896] But showyll and spade: varied in the margin to: hence for to

fade. MS.

[1897] Yn my men torne. MS.

[1898] Payn eternall for my inequyte. MS.

[1899] And my realme and ek to owr shame. MS.

[1900] He wynneth. MS.

[1901] Was only. MS.

[1902] But began by. MS.

[1903]

I was curssyd with candyll boke & bell,

I cowde not achyve yn no maner a degre,

To assyste ‘a sysmatyke’ me dyde not well. MS.

The last varied to ‘an enemye,’ in margin.

[1904] Awtoryte. MS.

[1905] The seusurys of the chyrche. Corrected in margin as above. MS.

[1906] Dam͞ ed, also altered as above. MS.

[1907] Cruell swerde. MS.

[1908] And exsampyll. MS.

[1909] Yn. MS.

[1910] A. MS.

[1911] With. MS.

[1912] Chyrche, altered as above in the margin. MS.

[1913] God neythyre. MS.

[1914] Crystyn man yn worse case. MS.

[1915] Then. MS.

[1916] In, wanting. MS.

[1917] Abhorryth me. MS.

[1918] Forsakyth me & hathe. MS.

[1919] Mercyfull Lord, for me pray. MS.

[1920]

O Rex regum in thy realme celestyall,

Gloryfied with joyes of Gabryall’s company,

Haue mercy onn kyng Jemy’s sowle.

Thy pete on hym Lord do magnyfye.

For thow haste hym prostrate so sodenlye

That vs to withstonde he had no myghte

By the helpe of Saynte George, our ladye’s knyghte. MS.

The first three lines altered in the margin conformable to the above

text. The last line forms the conclusion of every stanza.

[1921] Wonderly. MS.

[1922] Gretythe. MS.

[1923] As. MS.

[1924] Than sone was cryed. MS.

[1925] Ar. MS.

[1926] Daunt warde. MS.

[1927] Conyes. MS.

[1928]

For hym pray all England for hee

Was the noblest man yn that fyghte,

By the helpe of S. George owr ladye’s knyght. MS.

[1929] Ever more blessyd mote thowe be. MS.

[1930] Wyte well call hym we may. MS.

[1931] As delygente as. MS.

[1932] Ded helpe. MS.

[1933] Yt was to see at that. MS.

[1934] Perdy, not in the MS.

[1935] A royall. MS.

[1936] Which manly. MS.

[1937] Begyn. MS.

[1938] A one. MS.

[1939] Whoo durst abyde strokks neuer retourned. MS.

[1940] They devyded them yn bushements with. MS.

[1941] Yn thys maner. MS.

[1942] Men that tyme fled for fere. MS.

[1943] Seyne. MS.

[1944] That gracyous fleyng. MS.

[1945] With the comlyeste company y^n crystentte. MS.

[1946] Holy Trenyte. MS.

[1947] To show there. MS.

[1948] Ancre the Skotts dyd myche tene. MS.

[1949] Dyd by grace of God almyght. MS. Altered in the margin according

to the above text.

[1950] Scotts by pow^r. of God almyght. Altered in margin as above. MS.

[1951] Bells dyd ryng that lay. MS.

[1952] They were. MS.

[1953] Go we to hyt good fellows, all shalbe owrs by the grace of God’s

might. MS.

[1954] To sle and fall. MS.

[1955] Vnto. MS.

[1956] Lythe. MS.

[1957] Haue the lovyng. MS.

[1958] Euery. MS.

[1959] His, wanting. MS.

[1960] Be to. MS.

[1961] From danger dolefull vs defendyng. MS.

[1962] And ruler. MS.

[1963] Suffryd. MS.

[1964]

Haue mercye on kyng Jemy’s sowle,

Indulgens graunt hym for hys transgression. MS.

[1965]

And lawde honor & prayse be to the o͞ Lord almyght,

For the redde lyon ys confusyd, & y^e. whyte hath vyctory. MS.

[1966]

Explycit bellum de Brampton.

Quod. Fraunces Dyngley de manston. MS.

[1967] The induction to the following legend of Jane Shore, in the

edition of 1563, is that already given at p. 394, continuing from

the sentence “so yll a person. And to supplye that whych is lackinge

in him, here I haue Shore’s Wyfe, an eloquent wentch, whyche shall

furnishe out both in meter and matter, that which could not comlily be

sayd in his [K. Richard’s] person. Marke, I praye you, what she sayeth,

and tell me howe you like it.”

In the editions of 1571, 75, 78, where this legend comes by

transposition next after Michael Joseph, the Blacksmith, it has the

induction printed at p. 415-17, to the words “God will suffer none of

his to be tempted aboue their strength. But because [it continues]

these two persons last before rehersed were thoughte not onelye obscure

in the matter but also crabbed in the meeter, I haue here redy to

supply that which lacked in them, Shore’s wyfe, an eloquent wench,” as

just quoted, varying “his person” to “their persons.”

[1968] Although the name of Churchyard was affixed to the legend of

Jane Shore in common with the other authors in the edition of 1571,

it is certain that his title to that production was often questioned,

(unless it may be believed that the doubt was started to assist in

obtaining notoriety,) from the many laboured assertions made in various

places in support of his title, and it is to that circumstance the

above passage alludes.

Jane Shore did not die until about 1527, and her popularity long

survived her: the events of her life were then almost recent and well

known from the interesting character drawn other by Sir T. More, which

will be found in a future note, and must have given celebrity to this

poem beyond many other of the same poet’s productions. After a lapse

of thirty years from its first appearance, Churchyard reprinted “the

tragedie of Shore’s Wife, much augmented with divers newe additions,”

with other pieces in his _Challenge_, 1593, and in a dedication

strenuously defended himself against those who had attempted to

wrest from him this portion of his literary honours. This fact was

first pointed out by that accurate and diligent researcher into the

productions of the elder poets, Mr. Park, in the _Censura Literaria_,

Vol. II. p. 309, (where the whole legend had been previously inserted)

and from that source with the advantage and kindness of a further

collation of the additions with the original by Mr. Park, those

additions are now inserted in their respective places in the body of

the work. They consist of 21 stanzas, viz. from 11 to 14-29 to 31-34

to 36-52 to 60-68 and 74, and are distinguished with asterisks. To

complete the additions there is now given the author’s dedication.

“To the right honorable the Lady Mount-Eagle and Compton, wife to the

right honourable the Lord of Buckhurst’s son and heire.

“Good Madame. For that the vertuous and good ladie Carie, your

sister, honourablie accepted a discourse of my penning, I beleeved

your ladiship would not refuse the like offer, humbly presented and

dutifully ment, I bethought me of a tragedie that long laye printed and

many speake well of: but some doubting the shallownesse of my heade,

(or of meere mallice disdaineth my doings) denies me the fathering of

such a worke, that hath won so much credit: but as sure as God lives,

they that so defames me, or doth disable me in this cause, doth me

such an open wrong, as I would be glad to right with the best blood

in my body, so he be mine equall that moved such a quarrell: but mine

old yeares doth utterly forbid me such a combat, and to contend with

the malicious, I thinke it a madnesse; yet I protest before God and

the world, the penning of Shore’s Wife was mine; desiring in my hart

that all the plagues in the worlde maie possesse me, if anie holpe me,

either with scrowle or councell, to the publishing of the invencion

of the same Shore’s Wife: and to show that yet my spirits faile me

not in as great matters as that, I have augmented her tragedie, I

hope in as fine a forme as the first impression thereof, and hath

sette forth some more tragedies and tragicall discourses, no whit

inferiour, as I trust, to my first worke. And, good madame, because

“Rosimond” is so excellently sette forth (the actor[1969] whereof I

honour) I have somewhat beautified my Shore’s Wife, not in any kind

of emulation, but to make the world knowe my device in age is as ripe

and reddie as my disposition and knowledge was in youth, so having

chosen a noble personage to be a patrones to support poore Shore’s

Wife’s tragedie againe I commend all the verses of her, olde and newe

to your good ladiship’s judgment, hoping you shall lose no honour in

the supportation of the same because the true writer thereof, with

all humblenesse of mind and service, presents the tragedie unto your

honourable censure, wishing long life and increase of vertue’s fame to

make your ladiship’s day happie.

T. CHURCHYARD.”

[1969] Samuel Daniel.

[1970] “That is crept is in” is the text and corrected among the faults

escaped to “that crept is in the strawe.” 1563.

[1971] Eche vice. 1563.

[1972] Good Baldwyn. 1563.

[1973] That. 1563.

[1974] Of. 1563.

[1975] “Of the earth,” in the text corrected as a fault escaped to “of

earth.” 1563.

[1976] Were. 1563.

[1977] Was. 1563.

[1978] Then, misprint. 1587.

[1979] The offendour. 1563.

[1980] You are never the. 1563.

[1981] To. 1563.

[1982] The nightingale.

[1983] Neuer. 1563.

[1984] The ende. 1563.

[1985] Helpt. 1563.

[1986] No care. 1563.

[1987] Flitting. 1563. Which appears intended to be altered, as in the

faults escaped we are directed to read “her flitting frames.”

[1988] Her net. 1563.

[1989] Wee, misprint. 1587.

[1990] From me. 1563.

[1991] Him. 1563.

[1992] Fayned. 1563, 71.

[1993] The description of the person and the character of this frail,

though not quite unamiable beauty, was faithfully delineated in her

lifetime by the eloquent sir Thomas More, in the history of Richard

III. That that description is now given from _Hall’s Chronicle_, ed.

1548, may need requiring the reader’s indulgence, as much apposite

matter, less known, has been, of necessity, omitted in the notes, from

the unusual size of the present volume, but the relation appeared

too interesting to reject. After the execution of Lord Hastings, the

historian says: “By and by, as it were for anger and not for coueteous,

the protectoure sent sir Thomas Hawarde to the house of Shore’s wyfe

(for her husbande dwelte not with her) whiche spoyled her of all that

euer she had, aboue the valure of twoo or thre thousande markes, and

sent her bodye to pryson. And the protectoure had layde to her for

the maner sake that she was a counsaill with the lorde Hastynges to

destroye hym. In conclusion, when no coloure could fasten vpon these

matters, then he layed heynously to her charge that thyng that she

could not denye, for all the world knewe that it was true, and that

notwithstandyng euery man laughed to heare it then so sodeynly, so

highly taken, that she was naught of her body. And for this cause as a

godly continent prince cleane and fautlesse of hym selfe, sent out of

heauen into thys vicious worlde, for the amendement of men’s maners,

he caused the byshop of London to putte her to open penaunce, goyng

before a crosse one Sondaye at procession with a taper in her hand. In

the whiche she went in countenaunce and peace so womanly, and albeit

she was out of all aray sauyng kyrtel only, yet went she so fayre and

louely, and namely when the wondryng of the people cast a comely red

in her chekes, of the whiche she before had most mysse, that her great

shame wanne her much prayse amongest them that were more amorous of

her body then curious of her soule, and many good folke that hated her

liuyng and were glad to se synne corrected, yet pitied they more her

penaunce then reioysed it, when they considered that the protector did

more of corrupt mynd then any vertuous affection.

“This woman was borne in London, well frended, honestly brought vp and

very well maryed, sauyng somewhat to sone, her husbande an honest and a

yong citezen, godly and of good substaunc, but forasmuche as they were

coupled or she were well rype, she not very feruently loued for whom

she neuer longed, which was the thyng (by chaunce) that the more easily

made her to encline to the kynge’s appetite, when he required her.

Howbeit the respect of his royaltie, the hope of gaye apparell, ease,

pleasure, and other wanton wealth, was hable sone to perce a softe

tendre hart: but when the kyng had abused her, anone her husband beyng

an honest manne and one that could his good, not presumyng to touche a

kynge’s concubyne left her vp to hym altogether. When the kyng dyed,

the lorde Hastynges toke her, whiche in the kynge’s dayes albeit that

he was sore enamoured with her yet he forbare, either for a pryncely

reuerence or for a certayne frendely faithfulnesse. Proper she was and

fayre, nothyng in her bodye that you could haue chaunged, but yf you

would haue wished her somewhat higher. This saye they that knewe her

in her youthe, some sayed and iudged that she had bene well fauoured,

and some iudged the contrary, whose iudgement seameth like as menne

gesse the beautye of one long before departed, by a scaple taken out of

a chanell house, and this iudgment was in the tyme of kyng Henry the

eyght in the xviii. yere of whose reigne she dyed, when she had nothing

but a reueled skynne and bone. Her beautye pleased not menne so muche

as her pleasaunt behauoure, for she had a proper wytte and coulde both

reade and wryte, mery in compaigny, redy and quicke of answere, neyther

mute nor full of bable, somtyme tantyng without displeasure, but not

without disporte. Kyng Edward would saye that he had thre concubines,

which in diuerse proparties diuersly excelled, one the meriest, the

other the wyliest, the thirde the holyest harlot in the realme as one,

whom no man coulde get out of the churche to any place lightly, but

if it were to his bed, the other two were somwhat greater personages

then mastres Shore, and neuerthelesse of their humilitie were content

to be nameles and to forbeare the prayse of these properties. But the

meriest was Shore’s wyfe in whom the kyng therfore toke great pleasure,

for many he had, but her he loued, whose fauoure to saye the trueth

(for it were synne to lye on the deuil) she neuer abused to any man’s

hurt, but to many men’s comforte and reliefe. For where the kyng toke

displeasure, she would mitigate and apeace his mynde, where men were

out of fauour, she would bryng them into his grace, for many that

had highly offended, she obteyned pardon, and of forfeatures she gat

remission; and, finally, in many weighty suites she stode many menne

in great steade, either for none or very small rewarde: and those

rather gaye then riche, either for that she was content with the dede

well done, or for that she delighted to be sued vnto, and to shewe

what she was able to do with the kyng, or for that that wanton women

and welthy be not alwaies couetous, I doubt not some man wyl thynke

this woman to be to slight to be written of emong graue and weyghtie

matters, whiche they shall specially thynke that happely sawe her in

her age and aduersite, but me semeth the chaunce so much more worthy

to be remembred, in how much after wealth she fell to pouertie, and

from riches to beggery vnfrended, out of acquaintance, after great

substaunce, after so great fauour with her prince, after as great suite

and sekyng to with all those which in those dayes had busynes to spede

as many other men were in their tymes, whiche be now famous onely by

the infamy of their euill deedes, her doynges were not muche lesse,

albeit they be muche lesse remembred, because they were not euyll, for

men vse to write an euyll turne in marble stone, but a good turne they

wryte in the dust, which is not worst proued by her, for after her

wealth she went beggyng of many that had begged them selfes if she had

not holpen them, suche was her chaunce.” See _Percy’s Reliques_, 1794,

Vol. II. p. 256. _More’s Utopia_, _by Dibdin_, Vol. I. p. lxxxiii.

[1994] Moved. 1563.

[1995] ‘Warning,’ corrected by the faults escaped in ed. 1563. The text

of every copy is ‘warrant.’

[1996] Bad. 1563.

[1997] And say. 1563.

[1998] Of my. 1563.

[1999] This. 1563, 71, 75, 78.

[2000] Signature added 1571.

[2001] Hid. N.

[2002] Tale, misprint. 1587. N.

[2003] Off’cers. N.

[2004] He died of a continuall flyxe, in the abbey of Leycester, as

Stowe writeth. _Margin._

[2005] This concludes the edition of 1587.

[2006] This legend of Cromwell, by Drayton, was entered in the

Stationers’ books, to Iohn Flaskett, 12 Oct. 1607, and printed in

quarto the same year. It was inserted by Niccols in the edition of

1610, from which it is now given, collated with the author’s _poems_,

_printed for Iohn Smethwick_, 1637, 12mo.

[2007] Can tell as one that much did know. 1637.

[2008] Me that my breath. 1637.

[2009] To my sicke mother. 1637.

[2010] Who. 1637.

[2011] Win that place. 1637.

[2012] I tooke. 1637.

[2013] For ’twas distastefull. 1637.

[2014] Being besides industriously. 1637.

[2015] My judgement more to rectifie. 1637.

[2016] World it meant to win. 1637.

[2017] For Boston businesse hotly then in. 1637.

[2018] Soon it me won. 1637.

[2019] Jovial in my selfe was I. 1637.

[2020] And there. 1637.

[2021] Yet. 1637.

[2022] From the pomp. 1637.

[2023] Into the same I thought to make my way. 1637.

[2024] And my. 1637.

[2025] Her. 1637.

[2026] Fast declining. 1637.

[2027] To see. 1637.

[2028] He first. 1637.

[2029] Studies wholly I did. 1637.

[2030] To that which then the wisest. 1637.

[2031] Thereto. 1637.

[2032] There then were very. 1637.

[2033] Which after did most fearfull. 1637.

[2034] I no occasion vainly did reject. 1637.

[2035] Some that those courses diligently ey’d. 1637.

[2036] Slily. 1637.

[2037] Nought. 1637.

[2038] Into. 1637.

[2039] Who. 1637.

[2040] Up to him which that. 1637.

[2041] This. 1637.

[2042] Sat him far. 1637.

[2043] Wits doe. 1637.

[2044]

For which my master Wolsey might and maine,

Into such favour. 1637.

[2045] Tow’rds. 1637.

[2046] Before that Card’nall had me. 1637.

[2047] Hasting then. 1637.

[2048] To prove. 1637.

[2049] I had won. 1637.

[2050] Did. 1637.

[2051] When I had laine full low. 1637.

[2052] Who as. 1637.

[2053] And an. 1637.

[2054] Russel. 1637.

[2055] One that me. 1637.

[2056] Strook pale. 1637.

[2057] Or I could aske. 1637.

[2058] Were such in. 1637.

[2059] Bad. 1637.

[2060] Then of. 1637.

[2061] And then. 1637.

[2062] There were not. 1637.

[2063] Was he found. 1637.

[2064] I lesse that. 1637.

[2065] Was vicegerent made. 1637.

[2066] Him kindly to embrace. 1637.

[2067] Wrong to thy most noble. 1637.

[2068] When th’wast great’st. 1637.

[2069] He to. 1637.

[2070] Though, omitted. 1637.

[2071] Disdaigned not to. 1637.

[2072] The man thought sure he. 1637.

[2073] To wake. 1637.

[2074] I was to this good gentleman. 1637.

[2075] To. 1637.

[2076] With what might make them any. 1637.

[2077] To. 1637.

[2078] Had to the church. 1637.

[2079] Besides the. 1637.

[2080] Had not knowne. 1637.

[2081]

Example it to him was showne,

How Rome might here be eas’ly ouerthrowne. 1637.

[2082] Slander which from him should. 1637.

[2083] These. 1637.

[2084] Herselfe not limiting. 1637.

[2085] Dislik’d of her. 1637.

[2086] Seeing those. 1637.

[2087] To her great. 1637.

[2088] To the wise world. 1637.

[2089] Againe but onely to destroy. 1637.

[2090] As it in midst of much abundance. 1637.

[2091] Him should to the. 1637.

[2092] Hand to my deare cousin here. 1637.

[2093] Crost him, I could not be. 1637.

[2094] What. 1637.

[2095] When what. 1637.

[2096] Truth, now turn’d to heresie. 1637.

[2097] Enduring and as seldome good. 1637.

[2098] Much. 1637.

Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typos have been corrected. Other spelling inconsistencies,

including use of hyphens, have been left as found in the source material,

except as noted below.

Contents:

57 How King _Richard_ the second... Page 58 corrected to 56.

69 How the Lorde _Clyfford_... Page 198 corrected to 195.

97 The Poem annexed called England’s _Eliza_. Page 783

corrected to 813.

Footnote 926 (page 178 “Then came the duke of Somerset”) is not marked

as a footnote in the original, but follows the text at this point, in

the footnote section of the page.

The editor has used scribal abbreviations in the text. These have been

expanded to the intended words, as the exact form of the original

notation cannot be reproduced here. These substitutions were made:

m͞ me

o͞ on

Q^d Quod

w^t with

Italics are represented thus _italic_, superscripts thus y^n,

subscripts as y_{n}.