[This tragedy ended, another sayd: “Either you or kingHenryare a good philosopher, so narowly to argue the causes of misfortunes? but there is nothing to experience which taught, or might teach the king this lesson. But to proceede in our matter, I finde mention here, shortly after the death of this king, of a duke ofExcesterfound dead in the sea betweeneDouerandCalais, but what hee was, or by what aduenture hee died, maisterFabianhath not shewed, and maisterHallhath ouerskipped him: so that except wee be friendlier vnto him, hee is like to be double drowned, both in sea, and in the gulfe of forgetfulnes.” About this matter was much talke, but because one tooke vpon him to seeke out that story, that charge was committed to him. And to bee occupied in the meane while, I haue found the story of one drowned likewise, and that so notably, though priuely, that all the world knew of it: wherefore I sayd: “Because night approacheth, and that wee will lose no time, yee shall heare what I haue noted concerning the duke ofClarence, kingEdward’sbrother, who all to bee washed in wine, may bewayle his infortune after this maner.”]
[This tragedy ended, another sayd: “Either you or kingHenryare a good philosopher, so narowly to argue the causes of misfortunes? but there is nothing to experience which taught, or might teach the king this lesson. But to proceede in our matter, I finde mention here, shortly after the death of this king, of a duke ofExcesterfound dead in the sea betweeneDouerandCalais, but what hee was, or by what aduenture hee died, maisterFabianhath not shewed, and maisterHallhath ouerskipped him: so that except wee be friendlier vnto him, hee is like to be double drowned, both in sea, and in the gulfe of forgetfulnes.” About this matter was much talke, but because one tooke vpon him to seeke out that story, that charge was committed to him. And to bee occupied in the meane while, I haue found the story of one drowned likewise, and that so notably, though priuely, that all the world knew of it: wherefore I sayd: “Because night approacheth, and that wee will lose no time, yee shall heare what I haue noted concerning the duke ofClarence, kingEdward’sbrother, who all to bee washed in wine, may bewayle his infortune after this maner.”]