[With that[1029]maisterFerrersshooke mee by the sleue, saying: “Why how now man, do you forget your selfe? belike you minde our matters very much.” “So I doe indeede,” sayd I,[1030]“for I dreame of them.” And whan I had rehersed my dreame, wee had long talke concerning the nature of dreames, which to stint, and to bring vs to our matter agayne, thus sayd one of them: “I am glad it was your chaunce to dreame of dukeRichard, for it had bene pity to haue ouerpassed him. And as concerning this lordClyffordwhich so cruely killed his sonne, I purpose to gieue you notes: who (as hee well deserued) came shortly after to a sodayne death, and yet too good for so cruell a tyrant. [For on Palmesonday next following, being the xxix day[1031]of March, in the yeare of Christ a thousand four hundreth threescore and one, this lordClyffordwithHenry Percythe thirde earle ofNorthumberland, the earle ofWestmerland, the lordDacres, the lordWelles, and other were slayn atTowtoninYorkeshyre.][1032]Wherefore as you thought you saw and hearde the headles duke speake through his necke, so now[1033]suppose you see this lordClyfford, all armed saue his head, with his brest plate all gore bloud running from his throate wherein an headlesse arrow sticketh through which wound hee sayth thus.”[1034]]
[With that[1029]maisterFerrersshooke mee by the sleue, saying: “Why how now man, do you forget your selfe? belike you minde our matters very much.” “So I doe indeede,” sayd I,[1030]“for I dreame of them.” And whan I had rehersed my dreame, wee had long talke concerning the nature of dreames, which to stint, and to bring vs to our matter agayne, thus sayd one of them: “I am glad it was your chaunce to dreame of dukeRichard, for it had bene pity to haue ouerpassed him. And as concerning this lordClyffordwhich so cruely killed his sonne, I purpose to gieue you notes: who (as hee well deserued) came shortly after to a sodayne death, and yet too good for so cruell a tyrant. [For on Palmesonday next following, being the xxix day[1031]of March, in the yeare of Christ a thousand four hundreth threescore and one, this lordClyffordwithHenry Percythe thirde earle ofNorthumberland, the earle ofWestmerland, the lordDacres, the lordWelles, and other were slayn atTowtoninYorkeshyre.][1032]Wherefore as you thought you saw and hearde the headles duke speake through his necke, so now[1033]suppose you see this lordClyfford, all armed saue his head, with his brest plate all gore bloud running from his throate wherein an headlesse arrow sticketh through which wound hee sayth thus.”[1034]]