Chapter 87

[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.”

[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.

[1179]

That litle passinge on them that brought him in,Forgat his frendes, and set at naught his kin. 1578.

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.

[1181]

From prison to enlarge Henry, the sely kinge,Him to restore to kingdome. 1578.

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.

[1183]

Because the king to me was so vnkinde,No canker sure, soft flesh doth fret so sore. 1578.

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.”

[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.”

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