[Whan stoutRichardehad stoutely sayd his minde: “Belike,” sayd[599]one, “thisRichardwas but a litle man, or els litle fauoured of the[600]writers, for our cronicles speake very litle of him. But seeing wee be come nowe to kingHenrie’svoyage intoFraunce, we cannot lacke valiaunt men to speake of, for among so many as were led and sent by the king out of this realme thyther, it cannot be chosen but some, and that a great somme were slayne among them: wherefore to speake of them all, I thinke not needefull. And therefore to let passeEdwardeduke ofYorke, and the earle ofSuffolke, slayne both at the battayl ofAgïncourt, as were also many other, let vs end the time ofHenrythe fift, and come to his sonneHenrythe sixt: whose nonage broughtFraunceandNormandyout of bondage, and was cause that so[601]few of our noble men died aged: of whome to let passe the nombre, I will take vpon mee the person ofThomas Montague, earle ofSalisbury, whose name was not so good at home (and yet hee was called the good earle) as it was dreadful abroade: who exclayming vpon the mutability of fortune may iustly say[602]in maner as followeth.”]
[Whan stoutRichardehad stoutely sayd his minde: “Belike,” sayd[599]one, “thisRichardwas but a litle man, or els litle fauoured of the[600]writers, for our cronicles speake very litle of him. But seeing wee be come nowe to kingHenrie’svoyage intoFraunce, we cannot lacke valiaunt men to speake of, for among so many as were led and sent by the king out of this realme thyther, it cannot be chosen but some, and that a great somme were slayne among them: wherefore to speake of them all, I thinke not needefull. And therefore to let passeEdwardeduke ofYorke, and the earle ofSuffolke, slayne both at the battayl ofAgïncourt, as were also many other, let vs end the time ofHenrythe fift, and come to his sonneHenrythe sixt: whose nonage broughtFraunceandNormandyout of bondage, and was cause that so[601]few of our noble men died aged: of whome to let passe the nombre, I will take vpon mee the person ofThomas Montague, earle ofSalisbury, whose name was not so good at home (and yet hee was called the good earle) as it was dreadful abroade: who exclayming vpon the mutability of fortune may iustly say[602]in maner as followeth.”]