ROGER MORTIMER.
[When maisterFerrershad finished his[163]tragedy,[164]which seemed not vnfit for the persons touched in the same: another, which in the meane time had stayed vpon sirRoger Mortimer, whose[165]miserable ende (as it shoulde appeare) was somwhat before the others, sayed as foloweth: “Although it be not greatly appertinent to our purpose,[166]yet in my iudgement I thinke it woulde doe well to obserue the times of men, and as they be more auncient, so to place them.[167]For I finde that before these, (of whome maisterFerrershere hath spoken) there were twoMortimers,[168]the one[169]inEdwarde[170]the iij. time, out of our date; an other slayne inIrelandinRichardethe seconde’s time,[171]a yeare before the falle of these iustices: whose history sith it is notable, and the example fruitefull, it were not good to ouerpasse it: and therefore by your licence and agreemente,[172]I will take vpon mee the personage of the laste, who full of woundes mangled,[173]with a pale countenaunce, and griezly looke, may make his mone toBaldwine, as foloweth.”[174]]