THE
PRAYSE
OF
King
RICHARD
the
THIRD
.
THat
Princes
are
naturally
ambitious
,
and
that
Ambition
makes
them
to
effect
their
desires
,
rather
then
to
affect
the
equitie
of
their
designes
,
may
more
truly
then
safely
be
auowed
.
For
all
of
them
,
I
thinke
,
were
the
record
of
their
actions
indifferent
,
might
be
taxed
of
this
vice
.
But
this
excuse
cleares
not
the
accused
;
yet
it
testifies
,
that
Princes
erre
against
nature
,
if
they
aspire
not
.
We
hold
(
not
without
reason
)
that
if
the
bill
of
the
Plaintiffe
bee
stuffed
with
friuolous
assertions
,
that
the
complaint
fauoureth
more
of
malice
,
then
of
wrong
.
Why
should
not
the
same
Axiome
bee
a
motiue
to
cleare
this
wronged
Prince
,
whose
accusers
lay
to
his
charge
the
anguish
his
Mother
felt
,
when
he
came
into
the
world
?
then
which
accusation
what
can
be
more
friuolous
;
it
being
a
punishment
hereditary
to
all
women
,
from
the
first
?
His
being
toothed
,
as
soone
as
borne
,
seemes
to
me
rather
a
blessing
,
then
any
imputation
,
as
being
a
presage
of
his
future
worthinesse
,
and
as
all
Nurses
will
confesse
,
an
ease
of
much
paine
and
danger
.
But
he
was
crook-backt
,
lame
,
il-shapen
,
il-fauoured
.
I
might
impute
that
fault
to
Nature
,
but
that
I
rather
thinke
it
her
bounty
:
for
she
being
wholly
intentiue
to
his
minde
,
neglected
his
forme
,
so
that
shee
infused
a
straight
minde
in
a
crooked
bodie
,
wherein
shee
shewed
her
carefull
prouidence
.
For
oftentimes
,
the
care
to
keepe
those
parts
well
formed
,
with-drawes
mens
mindes
from
better
actions
,
and
drownes
them
in
effeminate
curiositie
.
His
lamenesse
turned
to
his
glory
;
for
with
those
imperfect
limmes
,
hee
performed
actions
most
perfectly
valiant
.
How
rightly
his
Father
[
a
](A19354-e210-b)
a
Rich.
D.
of
Yorke
,
father
of
Edw.
the
fourth
George
D.
of
Clarence
,
&
Rich.
the
third
.
claimed
,
his
brother
[
b
](A19354-e260-b)
b
Edw.
E.
of
March
,
eldest
sonne
of
R.
D.
of
Yorke
,
after
K.
by
the
name
of
Edw.
the
fourth
.
obtained
the
Scepter
,
is
sufficiently
knowne
,
and
therefore
superfluous
and
impertinent
:
and
also
how
his
brother
dusked
his
right
,
(
if
right
)
by
abrogating
the
oath
,
which
he
sware
at
Yorke
,
that
his
comming
in
armes
was
only
for
that
Dukedome
.
[
c
](A19354-e290-b)
c
For
the
Dukedome
of
Yorke
,
as
his
right
,
fro
his
father
D.
of
Yorke
.
But
to
dilate
how
variable
,
and
inconstant
the
people
of
those
times
were
,
shall
be
more
necessary
and
effectuall
,
that
knowing
their
inconstancie
,
their
traditions
(
like
themselues
)
may
the
lesse
bee
beleeued
:
so
light-headed
,
so
foolish
,
so
irreligious
,
as
their
opinion
(
for
what
else
are
the
thoughts
of
Ignorance
but
opinion
)
made
them
breake
their
oath
to
their
Prince
,
[
d
](A19354-e300-b)
d
K.
Henry
the
sixth
.
and
to
such
a
Prince
as
they
did
not
shame
to
dislike
,
onely
because
hee
was
too
good
.
Him
they
abandoned
,
deposed
,
after
restored
;
not
as
desiring
,
(
being
guilty
of
their
owne
fault
)
but
onely
that
it
stood
with
the
liking
of
Warwicke
the
child
of
their
loue
.
[
e
](A19354-e330-b)
e
Rich.
Neuile
Earle
of
Warwick
,
sirnamed
the
King-maker
If
then
they
were
such
,
(
as
indeede
they
were
)
and
that
those
relations
wee
haue
,
must
come
from
that
people
,
it
were
better
(
I
thinke
)
to
bury
their
traditions
,
then
refute
their
obiections
,
were
not
our
age
,
apt
to
erre
,
infected
with
this
folly
.
For
his
brother
K.
Edward
:
[
f
](A19354-e370-b)
f
K.
Edward
the
fourth
.
though
his
vices
seem
not
to
adde
vertues
to
this
condemned
Prince
,
yet
questionlesse
they
doe
;
making
all
his
ill-estimated
actions
of
an
other
nature
.
Hee
obtained
the
Crowne
,
but
rather
fortunately
,
then
wisely
,
were
not
all
wisedome
thought
folly
,
to
which
Fortune
lends
not
successe
.
For
I
thinke
,
Lust
,
or
if
you
will
terme
it
Loue
,
could
not
more
haue
preuailed
with
the
most
licencious
creature
,
then
at
once
to
breake
the
bonds
of
amity
,
discretion
and
policy
;
and
all
to
enioy
a
woman
,
in
respect
of
his
heighth
,
base
:
a
widow
,
[
g
](A19354-e400-b)
g
Lady
Eliz.
Gray
,
widow
of
Sir
Iohn
Gray
Knight
,
afterward
married
to
K.
Edward
the
fourth
.
and
of
his
enemy
,
without
bringing
him
either
alliance
,
or
riches
;
proppes
most
pertinent
to
his
new-erected
buildings
.
Wherein
,
besides
his
breach
of
regall
discretion
,
with
his
chiefest
friend
the
Earle
of
Warwick
,
whom
he
had
sent
into
France
,
to
treate
of
marriage
betweene
him
and
the
Lady
Bona
,
[
h
](A19354-e470-b)
h
Lady
Bona
,
Neece
to
the
French
King
Lewes
the
eleuenth
,
&
daughter
to
Lewes
D.
of
Sauoy
.
(
wherein
being
deluded
,
hee
became
his
mortallest
enemie
)
his
abuse
to
God
was
more
abominable
;
being
before
betrothed
(
as
his
owne
mother
constantly
affirmed
)
to
the
Lady
Elizabeth
Lucy
:
in
testimony
whereof
hee
had
layde
such
earnest
,
[
i
](A19354-e520-b)
i
For
he
had
got
her
with
child
.
as
should
haue
bound
any
common
man
,
much
more
a
King
,
to
performance
.
How
soone
the
wrath
of
God
followed
this
his
irreligious
inconstancie
,
his
being
driuen
from
the
Seate-Royall
into
exile
;
the
birth
of
his
sonne
in
a
Sanctuary
;
(
hauing
no
place
else
of
freedome
in
his
Fathers
kingdome
)
the
miserie
of
all
his
partakers
sufficiently
testifie
.
In
which
generall
misery
,
who
did
more
truely
follow
him
?
Who
more
faithfully
ayded
him
,
then
his
now
disgraced
Brother
?
Whereas
his
other
Brother
[
k
](A19354-e540-b)
k
George
D.
of
Clarence
,
second
brother
of
K.
Ed.
the
4.
Clarence
not
onely
left
him
,
but
ioyned
in
marriage
[
l
](A19354-e590-b)
l
Hee
married
Isabell
,
daughter
of
Richard
Neuill
Earle
of
Warwicke
.
with
the
daughter
of
his
principall
enemie
,
and
holpe
to
expulse
him
:
with
what
loue
,
what
constancy
,
his
indeauours
,
his
aduenturing
his
life
to
restore
him
,
doth
witnesse
.
Neuer
was
he
noted
all
the
life
of
K.
Edward
,
to
thirst
after
the
Kingdome
;
neuer
denyed
hee
any
commandement
of
his
Prince
,
but
performed
all
his
employments
discreetly
,
valiantly
,
successfully
.
The
suspition
of
helping
his
Brother
Clarence
to
[
m
](A19354-e660-b)
m
He
was
drowned
in
a
Malmsey
butt
in
the
Tower
.
his
end
,
was
but
a
suspition
,
since
the
kings
old
displeasure
awaked
by
a
new
Prophesie
,
was
vndoubttedly
the
cause
;
if
otherwise
(
when
he
after
repented
him
)
hee
would
haue
misliked
of
Gloucester
,
it
being
naturall
to
sinne
;
but
vnnaturall
,
to
ease
others
of
their
crimes
.
For
the
killing
of
the
Heire
of
the
house
of
Lancaster
at
Tewksburie
,
[
n
](A19354-e700-b)
n
Edw.
Prince
of
Wales
,
sonne
of
K.
Henrie
the
6.
slaine
after
the
battaile
of
Tewksbury
.
(
if
so
)
seemes
to
mee
,
rather
the
effect
of
loue
to
his
Brother
,
then
crueltie
to
the
Prince
:
for
he
was
an
enemie
,
yea
,
the
chiefe
and
principall
enemie
of
the
contrarie
faction
.
Yet
it
cannot
be
proued
the
action
of
Richard
,
but
that
it
was
an
act
wished
by
the
King
to
be
done
,
and
executed
in
both
their
presences
,
by
the
Duke
of
Clarence
,
the
Marquesse
Dorset
,
the
Lord
Hastings
and
others
.
The
death
of
Henrie
[
o
](A19354-e810-b)
o
The
death
of
Henrie
the
6
in
the
Tower
.
the
6.
in
the
Tower
,
can
no
way
belong
to
him
,
since
the
same
reason
that
cleareth
his
Brother
,
fitteth
him
;
hee
being
able
,
if
desiring
his
death
,
to
haue
effected
it
by
a
more
vnworthy
hand
.
And
indeed
this
accusation
hath
no
other
proofe
,
then
a
malicious
affirmation
.
For
many
(
more
truely
)
did
suppose
that
hee
dyed
of
meere
melancholie
and
griefe
,
when
he
had
heard
of
the
ouerthrow
of
his
friends
,
and
slaughter
of
his
sonne
.
But
if
it
were
true
,
though
it
spots
him
with
bloud
,
yet
it
confirmes
his
loue
to
his
Prince
;
which
loue
was
so
coldly
requited
,
as
might
haue
mooued
a
true
louer
of
Rewards
more
then
of
Vertue
,
to
haue
altered
his
indeauors
,
whether
it
were
a
iealousie
of
the
Nobilitie
of
his
blood
,
or
of
the
height
of
his
spirit
,
whether
the
abundance
of
affection
to
bee
led
by
a
woman
,
or
that
hee
was
defectiue
in
all
brotherly
affection
,
certaine
it
is
,
he
rather
imployed
him
,
then
rewarded
his
imployments
.
Contrary
,
the
Queenes
kindred
,
daylie
to
rise
,
meerely
without
desert
,
but
that
they
were
of
her
kindred
;
and
their
basenesse
being
thus
suddenly
exalted
,
not
only
to
plucke
from
him
promotions
,
due
to
his
deserts
,
but
to
enuie
the
Duke
,
and
contend
with
him
;
how
insupportable
it
must
be
to
so
magnanimous
a
spirit
,
whose
memorie
beare
witnesse
of
their
vnworthinesse
,
his
owne
worth
,
any
like
spirit
may
imagine
.
Thus
continued
this
vnequall
contention
,
vntill
the
King
,
sent
for
before
the
great
[
a
](A19354-e840-b)
a
The
death
of
K.
Ed.
the
4.
King
of
Kings
,
to
make
an
account
of
his
greatnes
,
left
his
body
,
to
testifie
the
worlds
folly
in
contending
for
Worlds
,
when
one
little
part
of
the
earth
must
contain
them
.
[
b
](A19354-e860-b)
b
King
Edward
Prince
of
Wales
son
to
K.
Ed.
the
4.
His
successor
at
that
time
very
yong
,
was
wholy
possessed
by
the
mothers
bloud
,
whom
the
[
c
](A19354-e900-b)
c
Richard
D.
of
Gloucester
made
Protector
.
now
Protector
had
great
reason
to
feare
,
being
euer
his
mortall
enemie
,
and
now
most
strong
,
by
being
most
neerely
allied
to
this
Prince
:
Therefore
iealous
of
his
own
preseruation
,
of
the
safety
of
the
Common-weale
,
and
of
the
ancient
Nobilitie
,
with
great
reason
and
iustice
hee
executed
them
,
whom
,
if
he
had
suffered
to
liue
,
were
likely
enough
to
haue
beene
the
destruction
of
him
,
it
,
and
them
.
But
the
deed
accomplished
,
stirred
vp
no
little
feare
in
the
Queen-Mother
,
and
her
faction
:
For
the
Queenes
taking
Sanctuarie
with
her
younger
sonne
[
d
](A19354-e930-b)
d
Richard
D.
of
Yorke
,
younger
son
of
Edward
the
4.
Richard
Duke
of
Yorke
,
without
any
cause
that
hee
knew
,
draue
Gloucester
to
suppose
that
they
doubted
of
their
right
,
and
put
him
in
possibility
of
obtaining
his
owne
:
wherein
by
ambitious
[
e
](A19354-e1000-b)
e
Hen.
Stafford
D.
of
Buckingham
.
Buckingham
he
was
assisted
,
who
then
related
to
him
afresh
the
vnlawfull
Marriage
of
his
Brother
,
that
being
vnlawfull
,
consequently
his
children
were
bastards
,
and
so
vndoubtedly
the
Crowne
was
lawfully
his
;
to
which
discourse
hee
annexed
protestations
of
furtherance
.
Though
perhaps
an
earthly
spirit
would
not
haue
beene
mooued
with
these
motiues
,
but
rather
haue
desired
safety
,
then
Soueraignty
:
yet
in
a
true
Heroick
spirit
,
whose
affect
is
aspiring
,
they
could
not
but
be
imbraced
,
vsing
the
wings
of
Time
,
to
bring
him
to
that
height
.
Be
not
obstinate
(
Mortalitie
)
against
this
climing
Axiome
,
for
hourely
you
commit
worser
errors
,
more
groueling
,
more
base
.
Were
it
not
common
,
euery
dayes
issue
,
it
were
admirable
to
note
the
impudencie
of
man
,
who
at
this
instant
condemnes
actions
,
which
himselfe
would
instantly
accomplish
,
were
he
permitted
by
occasion
.
The
Queene-Mothers
feare
,
his
owne
right
,
Buckinghams
ayd
,
and
his
owne
iealousie
to
erect
a
Prince
,
too
young
to
gouerne
himselfe
,
much
lesse
others
,
but
was
likely
to
bee
gouerned
by
his
Mother
,
and
her
kindred
,
the
Protectors
mortallest
enemies
,
men
of
meane
birth
,
not
inured
to
gouernment
,
such
as
were
likely
to
destroy
the
ancient
Peeres
,
to
fortifie
their
new
Nobility
,
could
not
but
draw
a
true
discerning
spirit
,
to
fauour
himselfe
,
to
protect
the
ancient
Nobilitie
,
to
defend
the
people
from
being
wasted
,
and
oppressed
by
the
ambition
and
tyrannie
of
new
vnexperienced
Statists
,
and
to
respect
his
owne
preseruation
,
rather
then
others
.
For
well
hee
saw
hee
could
not
liue
,
vnlesse
hee
were
a
King
;
that
there
was
no
safety
,
but
in
Soueraigntie
.
Should
I
put
thee
in
choyce
(
condemning
Reader
)
whether
thou
wouldest
not
be
,
rather
then
be
a
King
;
thou
wouldest
perhaps
answere
no
:
but
that
answere
should
proceede
,
rather
from
the
knowledge
of
thy
want
of
power
to
Royallize
thee
,
then
through
the
abundance
of
thy
modestie
.
No
,
no
,
it
is
a
desire
befitting
the
most
worthie
desirer
;
and
were
all
mens
affections
so
high
,
their
actions
would
not
proue
so
vnwor-thy
.
The
State
being
thus
in
labour
with
Innouation
,
the
Peeres
in
counsaile
about
their
Infant
Kings
Coronation
,
all
busie
,
yet
dissenting
in
their
businesse
;
in
a
Councell
holden
at
the
Tower
,
Hastings
Lord
[
f
](A19354-e1120-b)
f
Wil.
L.
Hastings
,
Chamberlaine
to
Edward
the
4.
Chamberlaine
was
apprehended
,
and
no
sooner
apprehended
,
but
executed
.
The
not
leisurely
proceeding
by
forme
of
Law
,
may
seeme
to
pleade
Hastings
innocencie
,
the
Pretectors
crueltie
.
But
they
that
consider
the
nature
of
the
people
of
that
time
,
apt
to
sedition
,
greedy
of
innouation
,
and
likely
to
be
glad
of
so
pittiful
a
color
(
for
Hastings
was
a
man
growne
very
popular
)
will
hold
the
Protector
in
that
action
very
iudiciall
,
and
,
if
guilty
of
any
thing
,
of
discretion
,
and
policie
:
But
could
Hastings
be
innocent
,
whom
[
g
](A19354-e1210-b)
g
Phil.
de
Commines
,
Lord
of
Argenton
in
his
Historie
.
Commines
reporteth
to
be
a
Pensioner
of
the
French
King
,
Lewis
the
11.
the
onely
subtill
Prince
of
that
time
?
he
,
of
all
others
,
that
most
affected
tyrannie
,
and
was
naturally
the
mortall
enemy
of
this
kingdome
.
Or
was
he
fit
to
be
a
Statesman
or
Counsailor
,
who
beeing
corrupted
by
the
bribes
of
an
enemie
,
had
disswaded
his
Master
,
the
late
King
Edward
the
4.
from
assisting
the
oppressed
Lady
[
a
](A19354-e1280-b)
a
Mary
sole
daughter
and
heire
of
Charles
D.
of
Burgundy
,
after
married
to
Maximilian
the
Emperour
.
the
heire
of
Burgundie
,
against
Lewes
the
French
King
,
whereby
that
Lady
was
driuen
to
seek
ayd
elsewhere
,
who
,
otherwise
,
was
likely
to
haue
married
with
the
Duke
of
Clarence
,
or
some
other
English
Prince
,
and
so
to
haue
vnited
that
Dukedome
to
this
Crowne
,
to
the
eternall
benefit
and
security
of
both
Countries
;
who
gloried
in
his
priuate
reuenges
,
who
not
onely
enticed
his
Master
,
but
accompanied
him
in
all
sensuality
:
who
in
the
deflowring
of
mens
wiues
,
[
c
](A19354-e1360-b)
c
Shores
wife
.
and
such
other
his
vnprincelike
actions
,
was
his
perpetuall
attendant
,
and
sometimes
(
as
it
is
thought
)
would
begin
to
him
?
[
d
](A19354-e1370-b)
d
Doct.
Shaes
Sermon
at
Pauls
Crosse.
Doctor
Shaes
Sermon
not
a
little
illustrates
the
malice
of
his
accusers
:
For
I
thinke
,
no
man
that
is
discreet
,
will
imagine
this
Prince
so
indiscreet
,
as
to
haue
witnesse
that
he
commanded
that
Sermon
,
and
gaue
instructions
what
should
bee
said
:
Then
how
do
our
Chroniclers
report
it
for
truth
,
were
not
their
malice
greater
then
either
their
truth
,
or
their
iudgement
?
But
they
are
Historians
,
and
must
be
beleeued
.
Alas
,
poore
men
,
how
would
they
be
beleeued
,
whose
greatest
authorities
(
as
a
learned
and
honourable
Knight
writeth
)
are
built
vpon
the
notable
foundation
of
heare-say
?
Philip
Sidney
in
his
defence
of
Poetry
.
men
that
haue
much
aide
to
accord
differing
writers
,
and
to
picke
truth
out
of
partiality
.
But
it
is
not
mentioned
,
that
Shaw
euer
executed
this
action
,
with
alleaging
him
to
be
the
cause
.
It
is
likely
indeed
,
that
Shaw
being
ambitious
,
gaping
after
preferment
,
supposing
some
such
intent
in
the
Protector
(
as
hee
had
a
reaching
head
)
was
bold
to
set
his
Rethoricke
to
sale
,
to
publish
his
fancies
:
but
seeing
his
hopes
vanish
into
smoke
,
and
his
expectation
deluded
,
seeing
the
Protector
neither
rewarded
,
nor
regarded
his
Rhethorick
,
he
soone
after
languished
and
dyed
:
a
iust
example
to
teach
Theologians
so
boldly
to
intermeddle
with
Princes
affaires
,
before
they
be
commanded
:
for
(
doubtlesse
)
had
the
Protector
set
him
a
worke
,
hee
would
haue
payed
him
his
hire
.
But
if
it
were
so
,
that
he
commaunded
the
Sermon
(
as
that
is
yet
vnproued
)
was
that
an
offence
to
make
the
people
so
publikely
partakers
of
his
right
;
yea
,
to
prostitute
his
cause
to
their
iudgements
?
for
charging
his
Mother
with
adulterie
,
was
a
matter
of
no
such
great
moment
,
since
it
is
no
wonder
in
that
sexe
:
And
surely
he
had
more
reason
to
aduenture
her
fame
,
then
his
Kingdome
,
because
of
two
euils
it
is
wisedome
to
chose
the
least
.
If
it
were
true
,
it
was
no
iniustice
to
publish
it
;
and
what
could
be
expected
from
his
,
but
true
Iustice
,
who
was
so
impartiall
,
that
hee
would
not
spare
his
owne
mother
?
if
vntrue
;
good
faith
,
he
was
therein
too
blame
,
and
her
innocencie
the
more
meritorious
;
but
certaine
it
is
,
the
people
approued
his
right
:
for
he
was
crowned
[
f
](A19354-e1520-b)
f
The
Coronation
of
K.
Richard
the
third
.
with
such
consent
,
and
so
great
applause
both
of
Peeres
and
people
,
that
if
we
will
iudge
by
the
outward
behauiour
(
the
onely
marke
our
iudgements
may
or
can
leuell
at
)
we
must
determine
them
so
contented
,
as
no
actions
which
might
testifie
the
satisfaction
of
their
mindes
,
were
omttted
:
surely
,
if
euer
the
vniudiciall
multitude
did
any
thing
iudicially
,
it
was
in
receiuing
this
Prince
,
whom
his
chiefe
disgracers
cannot
but
acknowledge
for
valiant
;
then
who
was
more
meet
to
restraine
domesticke
,
to
subdue
forraine
seditions
?
For
these
ciuill
dissensions
had
almost
wasted
and
made
desolate
this
populous
Nation
:
discreete
hee
was
and
temperate
,
(
two
so
rare
and
excellent
qualities
,
as
hee
that
truly
possesseth
them
,
meriteth
the
possession
of
a
Diademe
:
)
for
in
these
vertues
,
ioyned
with
that
Cardinall
vertue
Fortitude
(
wherof
also
he
had
a
very
large
portion
)
consisteth
the
soule
of
Soueraignty
,
which
whosoeuer
wanteth
(
be
he
a
while
neuer
so
powerfull
)
his
owne
greatnesse
so
crusheth
him
,
that
he
forfeiteth
all
in
a
moment
:
most
liberall
he
was
,
desiring
rather
to
want
,
then
to
suffer
worth
vnrewarded
:
and
this
liberalitie
is
the
onely
true
Nurse
,
and
fosterer
of
vertue
;
vertue
vnrewarded
being
vnsensible
,
our
flesh
being
gouerned
,
aduised
,
yea
mastered
by
our
senses
:
this
worthy
,
this
Princely
ornament
some
calumniators
haue
sought
in
him
to
deface
,
alleaging
;
that
his
liberality
to
some
,
proceeded
from
his
extortion
from
others
:
but
euen
those
cannot
deny
him
to
haue
been
politicke
and
wise
;
then
is
it
likely
that
a
Prince
of
his
wisedome
and
policie
,
could
not
discerne
betweene
the
worthy
and
vnworthy
?
And
to
take
from
vndeseruers
,
to
bestowe
vpon
deseruers
,
must
bee
acknowledged
a
Vertue
.
He
was
neither
luxurious
,
nor
an
Epicure
,
not
giuen
to
any
riot
,
nor
to
excesse
,
neither
in
apparell
,
nor
play
:
for
had
he
been
touched
with
any
of
these
vices
,
doubtlesse
they
which
obiect
lesser
crimes
,
would
not
haue
omitted
these
:
then
(
without
question
)
hee
was
largely
interessed
in
vertues
,
(
their
contraries
)
but
those
(
through
malice
)
are
either
not
registred
,
or
(
if
registred
)
so
infamed
,
as
if
all
his
vertues
had
a
vicious
intent
:
yet
to
acknowledge
the
vertues
of
the
vicious
,
is
such
a
right
,
that
what
Historian
willingly
omitteth
them
,
therein
becommeth
vicious
himselfe
.
But
in
all
that
I
haue
hitherto
among
tee
vulgar
obserued
:
Calpatur
factum
,
non
ob
alaud
,
quam
exitum
:
they
approue
,
or
disproue
all
things
by
the
euent
;
which
though
sometimes
it
proueth
like
the
cause
,
yet
it
is
more
often
gouerned
by
the
will
of
the
diuine
prouidence
.
And
surely
,
but
that
the
gracious
goodnesse
of
God
,
to
manifest
the
weaknesse
of
humane
policy
,
ouerthrew
his
designes
,
tooke
from
him
his
Kingdome
;
and
contrary
either
to
mans
hope
,
or
our
merit
,
vnited
by
a
blessed
and
happy
coniunction
[
a
](A19354-e1630-b)
a
The
two
dissenting
factions
of
Yorke
and
Lancaster
,
vnited
by
the
mariage
of
Henry
the
seuenth
to
Eliz.
eldest
daughter
to
Edw.
the
fourth
.
the
two
dissenting
factions
,
to
the
true
establishing
of
sweete
peace
and
prosperity
of
this
desolate
kingdome
:
for
,
otherwise
,
had
he
liued
to
haue
left
Issue
to
haue
succeeded
him
,
such
might
haue
beene
his
and
their
merits
,
that
Fame
would
haue
been
no
more
iniurious
to
him
,
then
to
his
Predecessors
,
the
fourth
Henry
and
Edward
,
whose
reignes
were
polluted
with
much
more
royal
bloud
:
for
he
omitted
nothing
,
that
in
wisedome
,
or
true
policie
might
secure
himselfe
,
or
establish
peace
,
or
good
lawes
in
this
Kingdome
.
His
Statutes
are
extant
;
what
can
be
found
in
them
not
becomming
a
King
?
what
,
not
befitting
the
seruice
of
God
?
the
worship
of
Religion
?
the
good
of
his
Countrie
?
yea
,
I
haue
heard
of
some
,
accounted
both
good
Lawyers
,
and
good
Statists
;
that
in
those
three
yeares
of
his
gouernment
,
there
were
more
good
Statutes
for
the
weale-publike
inacted
,
then
in
30.
yeares
before
.
He
was
no
taxer
of
the
people
,
no
oppressor
of
the
Commons
,
though
he
came
to
manage
an
Estate
,
whose
treasure
was
exceedingly
exhausted
;
no
suppressor
of
his
subiects
,
to
satisfie
either
licentious
humors
,
or
to
inrich
light-headed
flatterers
.
But
(
alas
)
who
robbes
vertue
,
but
ingratitude
,
detraction
,
and
malice
?
what
a
curse
is
it
to
Mortalitie
,
that
no
fashion
of
life
,
no
merits
,
no
regards
can
free
Princes
from
discontentments
in
their
life
,
and
infamy
after
death
?
who
is
it
that
heares
of
any
one
so
endued
,
so
loden
with
vertues
,
that
iudgeth
him
not
happy
?
yet
he
is
defamed
;
and
by
whom
?
euen
by
those
,
for
whom
hee
cared
,
laboured
,
and
omitted
nothing
that
might
profit
,
committed
nothing
that
might
preiudice
them
.
This
,
the
charge
and
commandement
that
hee
gaue
presently
after
his
coronation
,
to
the
Lords
and
Gentlemen
(
whom
hee
sent
home
into
their
Countries
)
that
they
should
in
their
Countries
▪
see
Iustice
duly
administred
and
impartially
,
(
that
no
wrong
,
nor
extortion
should
bee
done
to
his
subiects
)
doth
testifie
;
this
,
his
lawes
,
and
all
his
actions
approue
:
yet
neither
the
care
of
his
Country
,
his
lawes
,
nor
actions
,
are
thought
to
be
sufficient
to
pleade
his
equity
and
innocency
:
for
malicious
credulitie
rather
embraceth
the
partiall
writings
of
indiscreet
Chroniclers
,
and
witty
Play-makers
,
then
his
lawes
,
and
actions
,
the
most
innocent
,
and
impartiall
witnesses
.
It
is
laid
to
his
charge
(
as
a
maine
obiection
)
that
hee
was
ambitious
,
let
vs
examine
the
truth
of
this
accusation
.
Was
he
ambitious
,
who
was
onely
content
with
the
limits
of
his
own
Countrey
,
who
sought
to
bee
rather
famous
for
instituting
of
good
Lawes
,
then
for
atchieuing
great
conquests
?
No
,
no
,
he
wanted
nothing
to
make
him
an
accomplished
Prince
,
but
that
hee
was
not
ambitious
enough
:
for
had
hee
imitated
that
worthie
King
Henrie
the
5.
who
,
in
a
like
vnsettled
estate
,
led
out
the
Nobility
and
people
,
to
make
warres
vpon
forraine
enemies
,
to
make
conquest
of
France
,
and
to
embrue
their
Warlike
swords
(
lately
bloudied
against
one
another
)
in
the
bloud
and
bowels
of
strangers
:
he
might
(
perhaps
)
haue
had
a
fortunate
successe
:
For
he
wanted
not
the
like
title
,
he
was
no
lesse
valiant
,
no
lesse
politicke
.
So
might
hee
haue
re-conquered
that
kingdome
,
and
those
Territories
,
which
by
the
pusillanimity
of
some
of
his
Predecessors
were
giuen
away
,
and
lost
,
&
(
peraduenture
)
so
busied
the
stirring
heads
of
the
Nobility
and
people
,
that
they
should
haue
had
no
leysure
to
thinke
vpon
any
Innouation
or
part-taking
at
home
:
so
might
he
happily
haue
secured
himselfe
,
and
inlarged
the
bounds
of
his
conquests
beyond
any
of
his
Ancestors
.
What
lets
or
obstacles
could
hinder
him
from
those
glorious
enterprises
?
His
Subiects
were
warlike
,
trained
vp
in
armes
;
somewhat
too
much
exercised
in
bloud
,
because
it
was
in
their
owne
.
His
neighbours
,
the
French
,
were
gouerned
by
[
h
](A19354-e1750-b)
h
Lewes
the
11.
a
king
,
who
had
some
policie
,
but
so
little
valour
,
that
he
would
rather
yeild
to
any
Capitulation
,
then
heare
the
sound
of
an
aduersarie
Drumme
.
So
that
his
people
,
being
vnured
to
warres
,
were
easily
to
be
conquered
by
that
Nation
,
which
had
so
often
beaten
them
in
the
height
of
their
daring
.
The
Scots
,
their
colleagues
,
he
had
already
been
victorious
ouer
:
his
name
among
them
was
grown
terrible
.
For
in
the
time
of
his
Brother
hee
wanne
from
them
many
Castles
,
and
Holds
.
But
principally
he
conquered
[
d
](A19354-e1790-b)
d
The
death
of
Prince
Edward
,
&
Richard
D.
of
Yorke
in
the
Tower
,
Nephewes
in
the
Tower
,
whose
deaths
promising
quiet
to
him
,
and
wholly
imposed
vpon
him
,
how
truely
,
I
haue
reason
to
doubt
;
because
his
accusers
are
so
violent
,
and
impudent
,
that
those
vertues
(
which
in
other
men
are
imbraced
,
for
which
they
are
esteemed
as
Gods
)
they
impute
to
him
rather
to
be
enamellers
of
vices
,
then
really
vertues
:
His
Humility
they
terme
secret
pride
:
his
Liberality
,
Prodigality
:
his
Valour
,
crueltie
and
bloudthirstinesse
:
yet
in
these
dayes
,
their
partiall
opinions
are
thought
to
be
of
validitie
sufficient
,
to
make
proofe
of
any
imputation
:
But
if
it
were
so
,
that
their
deaths
were
by
him
contriued
,
and
commanded
,
the
offence
was
to
God
,
not
to
the
people
:
for
the
depriuing
them
of
their
liues
,
freed
the
people
from
dissension
.
And
how
could
hee
demonstrate
his
loue
more
amply
,
then
to
aduenture
his
soule
for
their
quiet
?
But
who
knoweth
,
whether
it
were
not
Gods
secret
iudgement
,
to
punish
the
Fathers
transgression
in
the
children
?
and
if
it
be
so
,
complaine
of
their
Fate
,
not
Richards
crueltie
:
(
for
in
these
fatall
things
it
fals
out
,
that
the
High-working
powers
,
make
second
causes
vnwittingly
accessarie
to
their
determinations
)
yet
,
in
policie
,
Princes
neuer
account
Competitors
(
how
young
soeuer
)
innocent
,
since
the
least
colour
of
right
prouokes
innouating
humours
to
stirre
vp
sedition
,
which
(
once
kindled
)
threatens
the
subuersion
,
both
of
Princes
and
Subiects
.
And
if
some
wise
,
and
politike
Princes
haue
imprisoned
,
and
put
to
death
,
such
as
haue
been
reputed
their
heires
and
successors
,
because
some
factious
heads
,
(
weary
of
good
gouernment
,
and
hoping
for
authority
by
alteration
)
haue
sought
to
establish
them
before
their
times
;
(
as
commonly
,
giddy-brained
people
doe
more
reuerence
the
Suns
rising
,
then
his
fall
)
had
not
King
Richard
great
reason
to
depriue
them
of
their
liues
,
who
were
not
to
succeede
him
,
(
but
in
many
mens
iudgements
)
had
most
right
to
bee
invested
before
him
with
the
Diademe
?
And
(
indeed
)
the
remoouing
such
occasions
of
ciuill
warres
in
a
well-ruled
Common-wealth
,
is
most
profitable
,
most
commendable
;
being
no
crueltie
,
but
pitty
,
a
iealousie
of
their
subiects
,
and
a
zealous
regard
of
their
owne
safeties
.
And
(
indeed
)
if
we
duely
consider
,
how
much
the
duty
we
owe
to
a
Countrey
,
exceedes
all
other
duties
,
since
in
it self
it
containes
them
all
,
that
for
the
respect
thereof
,
not
onely
all
tender
respects
of
kindred
,
or
whatsoeuer
other
respects
of
friendship
,
are
to
be
layd
aside
;
but
that
euen
long-held
opinions
,
(
rather
grounded
vpon
a
secret
of
gouernment
,
then
any
ground
of
truth
)
are
to
be
forsaken
:
since
the
end
,
whereto
any
thing
is
directed
,
is
euer
to
be
of
more
noble
reckoning
,
then
the
thing
thereto
directed
;
that
therefore
the
weale
publike
is
more
to
be
regarded
,
then
any
person
or
Magistrate
that
thereunto
is
ordained
,
the
feeling
consideration
hereof
moued
King
Richard
,
to
let
principally
before
his
eyes
the
good
estate
of
so
many
thousands
,
ouer
whom
he
had
reigned
,
rather
then
so
to
hoodwinke
himselfe
with
affection
,
as
to
suffer
his
Realm
to
run
to
manifest
ruine
.
If
any
man
shall
obiect
,
that
his
course
was
strange
,
and
vnlawfull
:
let
him
know
,
that
new
necessities
,
require
new
remedies
;
and
for
him
there
was
no
remedie
,
but
this
one
.
Then
if
for
this
action
hee
ought
to
be
condemned
,
it
is
for
indiscretion
in
the
managing
;
for
as
safely
might
hee
haue
had
the
Realmes
generall
consent
,
in
disposing
of
their
liues
,
as
of
their
kingdome
.
Had
hee
held
a
secret
execution
best
,
hee
might
haue
effected
it
more
secretly
:
but
hee
rather
chose
a
middle
way
,
content
to
let
the
people
know
it
,
holding
their
knowledge
equall
with
their
consents
:
And
it
should
seeme
,
the
people
,
(
though
they
were
at
that
time
very
factious
)
yet
approued
thereof
:
for
wee
find
not
that
in
any
action
,
either
inward
or
outward
,
they
shewed
any
dislike
.
And
(
truely
)
such
is
the
difference
between
the
thoughts
,
the
actions
,
the
dispositions
of
Princes
and
Subiects
,
that
I
hold
no
subiect
sufficiently
iudiciall
,
to
censure
them
:
their
courses
so
vnlike
,
that
what
is
meete
,
expedient
in
a
Prince
,
in
a
lower
fortune
is
vtterly
vnmeete
,
vnexpedient
.
Therefore
let
no
seruile
condition
aduenture
to
condemne
them
,
since
all
such
eyes
lose
their
facultie
,
if
they
but
gaze
against
the
Sunne
of
Maiestie
.
It
is
sufficient
for
vs
to
know
how
to
obey
;
this
Nature
commandeth
and
exacteth
of
vs
:
but
to
search
into
the
actions
of
our
Commanders
,
dilates
more
curiosity
,
then
honestie
:
Nay
,
though
we
would
,
we
cannot
:
for
our
knowledge
extends
to
things
equall
,
or
inferiour
;
those
aboue
vs
,
in
diuinity
,
are
comprehended
onely
by
faith
;
in
terrene
matters
(
if
superating
our
estates
)
they
are
onely
snatched
at
by
supposition
.
And
this
our
Lawes
approue
,
which
appoint
euery
man
to
bee
tried
by
his
Peeres
;
shall
then
the
head
,
the
director
of
ciuill
policie
,
the
anointed
Maiestie
of
a
King
,
be
barred
from
the
right
,
allowed
to
subiects
?
No
(
surely
)
it
is
preposterous
,
most
vnlawfull
to
condemne
a
king
,
if
not
found
faulty
by
a
[
a
](A19354-e1870-b)
a
A
King
not
to
bee
condemned
,
but
by
a
lury
of
Kings
.
Iury
of
Kings
.
Were
man
in
his
innocencie
,
this
aduice
were
not
lost
:
but
beeing
nousled
in
misusing
of
his
malicious
tongue
,
euer
to
condemne
others
,
neuer
to
amend
themselues
,
it
is
(
as
they
will
be
for
their
abuse
)
perpetually
lost
;
No
more
then
for
them
.
Let
vs
yet
further
cleare
this
wronged
Prince
:
It
is
constantly
affirmed
(
say
our
Croniclers
)
that
hee
first
noysed
,
after
,
contriued
the
death
of
his
wife
:
[
b
](A19354-e1890-b)
b
Anne
Wife
of
K.
Richard
the
3.
daughter
of
Ri.
Neuill
E.
of
War
.
&
widdow
of
Prince
Edward
,
son
to
Henry
the
6.
and
that
it
was
bruited
,
before
it
was
effected
,
thereby
with
her
sorrowes
to
confirme
the
report
.
This
euidence
they
adiudge
pregnant
,
and
effectuall
enough
to
condemne
him
:
did
Fame
neuer
lye
?
What
are
more
generally
receiued
for
vntruths
,
then
flying
reports
,
seeing
no
creature
sensible
will
giue
credit
to
Fame
,
or
take
her
word
,
without
a
surety
,
whom
they
may
assuredly
know
to
bee
credible
?
But
constantly
(
say
our
Croniclers
)
could
their
words
bee
so
constant
,
whose
actions
were
the
very
stage
of
inconstancie
,
who
opposed
,
deposed
kings
at
their
pleasure
,
and
(
to
make
sure
to
be
no
worse
then
they
were
)
swore
allegeance
to
two
[
c
](A19354-e1960-b)
c
To
Henry
the
6.
and
Edward
the
4.
Princes
at
once
,
and
with
both
broke
theif
Othes
?
But
I
will
spend
no
more
time
,
in
prouing
the
vanitie
of
these
Croniclers
,
since
their
owne
pen
contradicts
it selfe
;
first
,
shewing
the
affections
of
this
people
to
be
mutinous
,
and
after
,
approuing
them
:
for
certaine
it
is
(
but
vncertaine
,
that
the
King
caused
it
)
that
such
a
rumour
there
was
,
and
that
it
made
a
great
impression
in
the
Queene
,
deeming
(
as
women
are
euer
fearefull
)
this
propheticall
relation
to
be
the
forerunner
of
her
end
:
which
bewailing
to
her
husband
,
hee
fought
with
all
kindnesse
to
remoue
that
melancholy
fantasie
.
What
more
could
hee
doe
to
testifie
his
loue
,
to
cure
her
passions
?
But
how
absurd
is
it
to
thinke
or
imagine
,
that
the
king
contriued
her
death
?
Where
,
if
hee
had
pleased
to
marry
elsewhere
(
for
that
is
made
the
cause
)
hee
might
and
would
haue
vsed
a
more
safe
meanes
by
a
diuorce
;
did
not
the
French
king
Lewes
the
12.
(
because
[
a
](A19354-e2000-b)
a
The
wife
,
from
whome
hee
was
diuorced
,
was
Ioane
,
daughter
of
Lewes
the
12.
sister
of
Charles
the
8.
Ga●
.
Iab.
4.
his
wife
was
barren
,
and
crooked
backt
)
sue
a
diuorce
,
and
obtained
it
from
Pope
Alexander
the
sixt
,
and
afterward
by
his
dispensation
married
with
Anne
Dutchesse
of
Brittaine
,
the
widdow
of
his
predecessor
Charles
the
8
?
Might
not
King
Richard
haue
done
the
like
:
for
he
had
the
like
cause
(
his
wife
being
barren
)
whereof
hee
had
often
complained
to
Rotheram
then
Archbishop
of
Yorke
?
And
the
Popes
of
those
times
were
not
so
nice
conscienced
to
deny
Princes
such
requests
,
but
were
easily
wonne
thereunto
,
either
by
fauour
,
or
rewards
:
therefore
,
that
he
contriued
her
death
,
was
a
slanderous
,
false
and
absurd
accusation
;
but
her
[
b
](A19354-e2110-b)
b
The
death
of
Anne
wife
of
Richard
the
3
and
second
daughter
of
Richard
Neuill
Earle
of
Warwicke
.
time
was
come
,
which
Mortalitie
might
sorrow
,
but
sorrow
might
not
preuent
,
Death
beeing
deafe
to
all
humane
lamentations
.
After
her
death
,
being
desirous
to
reconcile
himselfe
to
all
such
,
as
held
themselues
offended
(
as
at
his
Coronation
hee
had
done
with
Fogg
a
meane
Attourny
,
who
had
highly
offended
him
)
he
laboured
to
win
the
one
sort
with
benefits
and
rewards
,
and
freely
pardoned
the
others
misbehauiors
and
offences
:
hee
had
no
cause
to
feare
Fogg
,
therefore
feare
was
not
the
cause
.
No
,
it
was
a
worthy
,
a
kingly
humility
,
that
would
rather
abate
of
his
greatnesse
,
then
to
haue
it
stained
with
the
bloud
of
so
meane
a
vassaile
,
for
a
crime
committed
against
himselfe
,
yet
was
hee
guilty
of
counterfeiting
his
Royall
hand
and
Signet
,
and
of
a
most
vntrue
and
infamous
libell
:
therefore
how
falsely
do
our
Croniclers
seeke
to
cleare
Collingborne
,
who
was
(
as
may
appeare
by
his
inditement
[
c
](A19354-e2210-b)
c
Collingborn
executed
for
Treason
,
not
libelling
.
executed
for
treason
against
the
state
,
not
for
that
ryming
,
foolish
,
ridiculous
libell
?
for
neither
they
,
nor
any
other
can
euer
prooue
,
that
euer
he
reuenged
any
iniury
whatsoeuer
committed
particularly
against
himselfe
.
For
the
good
and
safety
of
his
kingdome
and
people
,
he
was
zealous
,
hee
was
feruent
:
for
,
onely
for
their
peace
,
for
their
quiet
,
hee
was
content
to
suffer
his
neerest
kinsmen
,
his
dearest
friends
to
be
executed
;
so
now
with
the
mother
Queene
he
laboured
reconciliation
,
he
often
solicited
it
,
at
the
last
he
effected
it
:
This
rare
,
this
excellent
worke
of
Christianity
,
this
true
cognisance
of
a
Religious
Queene
,
our
Chroniclers
defame
,
and
impute
it
to
her
as
an
horrible
crime
:
such
is
the
obstinate
errour
of
mankinde
,
that
,
when
hatred
is
by
God
absolutely
prohibited
,
they
dare
say
and
maintaine
the
contrary
:
but
(
were
not
they
thus
corrupt
,
partiall
,
gouerned
wholly
by
affection
,
not
truth
;
)
their
Histories
would
be
the
wisest
guides
,
making
men
that
are
young
in
yeeres
,
olde
in
iudgement
,
making
experience
most
precious
)
most
cheape
:
For
Knowledge
,
Iudgement
,
and
Experience
are
dearely
purchased
,
when
wee
must
wander
into
infinite
errours
,
ere
we
can
be
perfect
in
our
way
;
nay
,
they
were
most
deare
,
were
they
had
with
no
other
expence
,
but
growing
old
before
we
enioy
them
,
waxing
rotten
,
ere
they
grow
ripe
.
The
end
and
scope
of
this
reconciliation
was
,
to
vnite
himselfe
in
marriage
with
his
[
d
](A19354-e2260-b)
d
The
Lady
Elizabeth
eldest
daughter
to
Edw.
the
fourth
,
after
wife
to
Henry
the
seuenth
.
Neece
:
a
contract
(
no
doubt
)
inconuenient
,
and
prohibited
the
Vulgar
;
but
amongst
States-men
it
is
like
to
produce
infinite
good
,
both
to
Prince
and
people
.
It
is
an
inconvenience
,
most
conuenient
,
nothing
strange
,
because
vsuall
,
and
accustomed
amongst
Princes
:
tolerated
,
yea
allowed
by
their
receiued
Oracle
of
diuinity
;
the
Pope
,
who
considering
the
cause
,
ordinarily
dispenseth
with
the
Consanguinity
.
It
is
granted
that
this
desire
of
marriage
was
mentioned
by
this
King
,
in
respect
of
the
publike
peace
;
to
make
satisfaction
to
the
Mother
,
in
exalting
the
daughter
,
for
the
deiecting
of
the
Sonnes
,
and
to
auoid
the
effusion
of
much
of
the
peoples
bloud
,
which
was
likely
to
be
spilt
,
if
his
Neece
should
marry
elsewhere
:
as
if
(
sayour
Chroniclers
)
the
first
could
not
be
established
,
the
latter
auoided
without
this
Platforme
of
Policie
;
No
,
had
not
Gods
secret
working
bin
beyond
mans
wisest
apprehension
,
it
could
not
:
for
well
he
knew
the
head-strong
obstinacy
of
this
people
could
hardly
be
kept
in
awe
by
a
man
,
therfore
impossible
to
be
restrained
by
children
:
this
made
him
dispossesse
them
of
their
Kingdom
,
&
(
peraduenture
)
of
their
liues
:
for
had
they
been
suffered
to
liue
,
they
would
euer
haue
bin
the
fire-brands
of
new
seditions
;
and
therfore
he
thought
it
more
conuenient
,
they
should
be
quenched
with
their
owne
blouds
,
then
with
the
blouds
of
infinit
numbers
of
the
people
;
yet
to
make
satisfaction
for
this
wrong
,
(
if
it
were
a
wrong
to
depriue
the
disturbers
of
the
common
good
)
hee
was
contented
and
much
laboured
to
marry
their
Sister
,
his
Neece
:
but
he
is
therefore
adiudged
ill
:
why
?
because
his
accusers
would
be
reputed
good
,
though
(
without
doubt
)
he
was
a
good
Prince
,
and
they
all
,
or
the
most
part
of
all
,
euill
,
phantasticke
,
and
seditious
people
.
And
euen
at
this
day
,
though
the
fortunate
&
succesfull
gouernment
of
our
later
Princes
,
hath
somwhat
altered
their
natures
,
&
bettered
their
conditions
;
yet
it
were
a
lesse
difficult
quest
to
finde
one
good
man
,
then
many
.
But
it
pleased
not
the
diuine
Ordainer
of
marriage
to
permit
that
coniunction
,
but
rather
to
set
a
Period
at
once
to
his
kingdome
and
life
.
About
the
time
of
the
plotting
of
this
mariage
,
the
iudiciall
Buckingham
,
(
not
thinking
himselfe
sufficiently
regarded
)
grew
discontent
,
and
got
the
Princes
fauour
to
retire
himself
into
the
Country
;
where
(
no
doubt
)
his
fantastick
melancholly
would
soone
haue
vanished
(
being
a
man
more
happy
in
the
inheritance
of
his
Father
,
then
in
the
legacie
of
Nature
,
discretion
,
or
iudgement
)
had
not
the
Prisoner
corrupted
the
Iaylour
:
namely
,
[
a
](A19354-e2420-b)
a
This
Moreton
was
after
in
the
reigne
of
Henry
the
seuenth
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
,
Cardinall
and
Lord
Chancellor
of
England
.
Moreton
,
Bishop
of
Ely
(
committed
by
King
Richard
to
his
custodie
)
who
finding
this
Duke
discontented
,
more
desirous
to
inflame
his
griefes
,
then
to
redresse
them
,
with
his
fiery
wit
so
wrought
vpon
the
Dukes
combustible
matter
,
that
suddenly
he
brought
him
to
kindle
a
fire
of
rebellion
,
and
to
take
vp
armes
against
his
Soueraigne
:
this
K.
Richard
soone
hearing
,
he
prosecuted
him
as
an
enemy
,
and
so
laboured
(
what
by
his
owne
wisedome
,
what
by
his
especials
)
that
within
a
while
he
tooke
his
head
from
[
b
](A19354-e2480-b)
b
The
death
of
Henry
Stafford
D.
of
Buckingham
beheaded
at
Shrewsbury
.
his
body
,
for
being
no
better
able
to
aduise
him
in
his
proceedings
:
was
it
a
fault
to
punish
periury
in
him
,
who
had
sworne
true
allegeance
?
then
the
executing
of
law
is
a
sin
;
if
so
,
let
transgressors
be
accounted
innocent
,
and
Magistrates
and
Iudges
guilty
of
transgression
.
And
had
this
been
the
action
of
some
other
Prince
,
it
had
been
good
,
iust
,
necessary
;
but
being
his
,
it
is
censured
the
contrary
:
so
that
sinne
is
not
sinne
,
nor
vertue
accounted
vertue
,
by
their
owne
natures
or
effects
,
but
are
made
vertues
or
vices
,
by
the
loue
or
hate
that
is
borne
to
the
committer
:
such
is
our
humane
vnderstanding
,
as
they
rather
confound
all
things
,
then
by
distinguishing
them
to
make
choice
of
the
worthiest
;
for
let
a
Noble-man
be
popular
,
if
he
haue
an
ill
face
,
it
is
termed
warlike
,
his
drunkennesse
is
termed
good
fellowship
,
his
slouenliness
,
humility
,
his
prodigality
,
liberality
;
thus
is
vertue
suppressed
,
and
forced
with
her
own
titles
to
adome
her
mortallest
aduersaries
.
But
,
to
returne
to
our
defamed
King
had
not
his
mercy
exceeded
his
cruelty
,
his
safety
had
been
better
secured
,
and
his
name
not
so
much
subiect
to
obloquy
:
for
though
he
cut
off
the
head
of
a
mighty
Conspirator
,
yet
he
suffered
the
conspiracie
to
take
so
deepe
root
,
that
(
in
the
end
)
the
branches
thereof
ouertopped
his
glory
,
and
ouershadowed
his
greatnesse
.
[
c
](A19354-e2500-b)
c
Margaret
Countesse
of
Richmond
,
wife
of
Thomas●
.
Stanley
,
mother
of
K.
Henry
the
seuenth
.
For
the
Countesse
of
Richmond
labouring
in
her
sonnes
right
,
daily
enticed
and
inueigled
many
to
be
of
her
faction
:
to
streng,then
which
the
more
,
it
was
plotted
betweene
the
two
Mothers
,
to
ioyne
[
a
](A19354-e2560-b)
a
Q.
Elizabeth
mother
to
Elizabeth
,
eldest
daughter
of
Edward
the
fourth
,
and
Marg.
Coun.
of
Rich.
mother
to
Henry
the
seuenth
,
after
King
.
the
two
dissenting
houses
in
vnitie
,
by
[
b
](A19354-e2620-b)
b
Yorke
and
Iancaster
.
a
marriage
.
This
practice
the
King
well
knew
;
yet
mercy
,
loue
,
lenity
so
preuailed
with
him
,
that
hee
onely
sought
to
preuent
that
coniunction
,
by
vniting
his
brothers
daughter
with
himselfe
,
and
inflicted
no
other
punishment
on
the
Countesse
,
but
onely
the
committing
of
her
to
the
custody
of
her
[
c
](A19354-e2630-b)
c
Tho.
L.
Stanly
,
after
by
Hen.
the
seuenth
created
E.
of
Darby
.
Husband
.
Would
a
cruell
bloud-thirsty
Prince
haue
done
so
?
could
any
thing
haue
been
performed
with
more
mildnesse
and
lenity
?
could
he
do
lesse
then
let
her
vnderstand
,
that
hee
knew
her
secretest
practises
?
Surely
,
if
hee
were
an
Vsurper
(
as
that
he
could
not
be
now
,
standing
after
the
death
of
his
Nephewes
in
the
same
ranke
,
that
Edward
the
fourth
his
brother
did
)
yet
his
equity
in
iustice
,
his
mercy
in
pardoning
offendors
,
his
care
of
Religion
,
his
prouidence
for
the
safety
of
the
people
,
should
and
ought
to
haue
tempered
the
bitternesse
of
his
most
malicious
enemies
,
with
no
lesse
mercifull
gentlenesse
he
vsed
her
husband
,
(
and
that
)
at
such
time
as
her
sonne
was
already
landed
,
and
made
claime
to
the
kingdome
:
for
hee
onely
tooke
his
sonne
[
d
](A19354-e2680-b)
d
George
Lord
Strange
,
son
&
heire
to
Tho.
L.
Stanley
.
the
Lord
Strange
as
an
hostage
,
and
then
suffered
him
to
go
into
the
Country
to
leuie
his
forces
:
so
farre
was
he
from
bloud
and
cruelty
,
as
,
though
he
knew
his
alliance
to
the
contrary
faction
,
a
motiue
,
sufficient
to
make
him
(
as
indeed
hee
did
)
incline
to
their
ayd
,
though
hee
might
iustly
suspect
him
,
and
could
not
haue
wanted
colour
to
haue
beheaded
him
(
as
being
father-in-law
to
his
Competitor
)
yet
he
only
detained
his
sonne
in
his
Campe
;
and
when
hee
had
assured
notice
of
his
Fathers
disloyall
reuolt
,
yet
he
suffered
the
Hostage
of
his
loyalty
to
liue
:
an
euidence
effectuall
enough
to
testifie
,
that
he
desired
rather
to
settle
,
then
to
ouerthrow
the
quiet
of
this
Land
;
that
he
laboured
to
win
the
hearts
of
his
subiects
,
rather
with
meekenesse
then
cruelty
;
what
Prince
could
haue
done
lesse
?
Nay
,
what
King
would
not
haue
done
more
?
since
both
the
effect
,
and
the
present
feare
,
are
both
such
inward
tormentors
,
that
it
is
hard
to
determine
which
is
most
grieuous
:
so
opposite
,
so
contrary
to
the
nature
of
a
Prince
(
borne
,
not
to
feare
,
but
to
be
feared
)
that
it
is
most
iust
,
most
naturall
,
to
remoue
such
a
terrour
;
but
now
[
e
](A19354-e2740-b)
e
Henry
the
7.
the
Heire
of
Lancaster
being
come
to
challenge
the
Crowne
,
what
did
the
King
?
Did
his
spirits
faile
him
?
Was
his
magnanimous
courage
daunted
?
No
,
he
then
gathered
new
spirit
,
he
new
steeled
his
courage
,
he
withstood
him
with
the
height
of
fortitude
;
protesting
rather
to
dye
valiantly
,
then
to
liue
lesse
then
a
King
.
With
what
a
Roman-like
spirit
did
he
resist
fortune
?
being
ouerthrowne
,
how
Heroically
did
he
encounter
with
death
?
This
our
detracting
Chroniclers
cannot
but
acknowledge
:
for
so
high
,
so
powerful
was
his
magnanimity
,
that
(
in
spight
of
malice
)
it
preuaileth
,
and
(
like
the
Sunne
)
breaketh
thorow
the
misty
clouds
of
his
aduersaries
slaunders
:
was
it
a
fault
to
withstand
the
Lancastrian
heires
claime
?
then
those
are
faulty
,
who
being
in
possession
of
lands
,
to
proue
good
their
title
,
prosecute
suites
,
and
are
ouerthrown
by
the
lawe
:
for
the
sentence
of
iudgement
makes
them
to
perceiue
that
to
be
an
errour
,
which
before
they
imagined
none
.
Besides
,
he
knew
well
,
that
his
kingdome
&
life
had
both
one
period
,
to
which
life
he
was
perswaded
his
Competitor
had
no
right
,
and
therefore
he
would
neuer
be
guilty
of
such
a
sinne
(
as
wilfully
to
betray
it
)
till
he
which
had
lent
it
him
required
repayment
.
Had
his
life
,
his
actions
been
most
abominable
;
yet
(
like
a
slaue
)
to
haue
yeelded
his
throate
to
the
execution
,
would
haue
been
an
imputation
beyond
all
other
imputations
:
but
could
he
as
openly
haue
manifested
his
other
vertues
,
as
he
did
his
valor
and
policy
,
the
worlds
opinion
had
been
otherwise
,
and
I
neither
had
taken
such
paines
to
defend
his
innocency
,
nor
in
some
weake
iudgements
to
endanger
mine
owne
.
But
surely
he
did
couragiously
and
valiantly
withstand
his
enemies
,
with
great
expedition
rallying
his
forces
,
and
performing
all
things
with
wonderfull
celerity
,
he
went
to
encounter
the
disturbers
of
his
quiet
.
It
is
reported
,
that
,
the
night
before
the
day
of
battaile
,
he
dreamed
a
most
[
a
](A19354-e2820-b)
a
K.
Rich.
dream
the
night
before
the
battaile
of
Bosworth
.
dreadfull
and
horrible
dreame
,
which
by
our
Chroniclers
is
interpreted
to
be
a
testimony
of
his
wicked
and
tyrannous
life
.
Did
not
Caesar
,
[
b
](A19354-e2850-b)
b
Plutarch
is
the
life
of
Caesar
,
Dion
and
Brutus
.
before
he
attained
the
Empire
,
dreame
that
he
knew
his
owne
Mother
carnally
?
had
not
both
Dion
and
Brutus
the
figures
of
terrible
spirits
represented
vnto
them
,
the
night
before
their
end
?
and
yet
these
were
reputed
good
men
,
and
louers
and
protectors
of
their
Countrie
;
and
because
king
Richard
dreamed
with
some
terrour
,
must
his
life
of
necessitie
be
euill
?
O
vaine
!
O
friuolous
obiection
!
but
they
hold
this
dreame
to
be
a
compunction
of
his
conscience
:
happy
Prince
to
haue
so
indiscreete
slaunderers
;
for
how
could
they
more
truly
witnesse
his
integrity
?
since
onely
they
which
reuerence
and
feare
God
,
are
indued
with
that
inquiring
conscience
,
which
censureth
their
actions
:
for
they
which
are
giuen
ouer
to
a
reprobate
sence
,
are
insensible
of
that
good
Angell
,
which
seeketh
by
telling
vs
our
faults
,
to
make
vs
repent
our
sinnes
past
,
and
to
bee
wary
,
lest
we
commit
any
more
.
Surely
,
I
thinke
,
his
conscience
(
like
a
glasse
)
presented
before
him
the
figures
of
all
his
actions
;
which
he
faithfully
examining
,
humbly
craued
pardon
for
his
misdeeds
:
and
so
hauing
made
atonement
with
God
,
like
a
deuout
Penitentiary
setled
his
minde
,
he
went
with
alacrity
to
the
bloudy
Court
,
where
the
cause
of
his
life
was
to
be
tryed
:
where
his
sword
being
his
Aduocate
,
pleaded
most
valiantly
.
In
all
which
tumult
,
he
failed
neither
in
discretion
,
nor
in
execution
,
but
boldly
encouraged
his
Souldiers
,
both
by
word
and
example
.
There
is
extant
in
our
Chronicles
,
an
[
a
](A19354-e2940-b)
a
The
Oration
of
K.
Richard
.
Holliniheds
〈◊〉
in
the
end
〈…〉
.
Oration
,
which
at
that
time
he
made
to
his
Souldiers
,
wherein
he
confesseth
his
errors
,
and
desireth
pardon
of
all
the
world
,
as
he
hoped
his
repentant
teares
had
obtained
mercy
of
God
.
What
a
Saint-like
thing
was
this
,
for
a
King
,
to
craue
forgiuenesse
of
subiects
?
for
a
Generall
,
to
humble
himselfe
to
his
Souldiers
?
What
could
it
be
but
the
effect
of
a
more
diuine
,
then
terrene
vnderstanding
?
If
(
like
the
common
fashion
of
men
)
he
would
haue
put
his
affiance
in
humane
assistance
,
and
neglected
his
God
,
he
might
(
in
common
reason
)
haue
promised
himselfe
the
victory
:
being
double
in
forces
,
and
nothing
inferior
,
either
in
valor
or
policy
;
but
hee
acknowledged
and
confessed
the
power
of
the
most
powerful
:
he
knew
that
it
was
not
the
multitude
of
men
,
but
God
,
that
giueth
the
victory
.
And
therefore
hauing
first
made
peace
with
his
owne
soule
,
he
humbled
himselfe
,
and
asked
pardon
of
those
,
ouer
whom
he
had
gouernment
:
knowing
no
gouernment
to
be
so
perfect
,
wherein
some
good
men
are
not
offended
.
This
was
the
effect
of
his
compunction
;
to
put
him
in
remembrance
,
that
Princes
are
mortall
,
and
that
his
being
a
King
,
bound
him
to
a
more
strict
reckoning
,
then
one
that
enioyeth
a
lesser
Farme
.
Now
whether
this
mercifull
remembrance
of
God
disgraceth
him
,
iudge
ye
that
haue
grace
.
But
now
(
both
battailes
being
ioyned
)
what
did
this
valiant
King
?
Did
he
onely
stand
to
giue
directions
to
others
?
No
,
he
did
rigorous
execution
with
his
sword
vpon
his
enemies
.
Did
he
,
when
he
perceiued
some
of
his
Subiects
disloyally
to
reuolt
,
and
that
his
forces
were
put
to
the
worst
,
thinke
vpon
yeelding
or
flight
?
Though
by
some
of
his
faithfullest
seruants
he
was
counsailed
to
flie
,
and
for
that
purpose
presented
with
a
Horse
of
wonderfull
speed
,
yet
hee
would
not
:
for
hauing
been
inured
to
conquest
,
he
scorned
to
yeeld
:
hauing
been
a
King
,
he
would
not
die
a
vassall
;
and
therefore
,
because
the
garland
was
a
Crowne
,
the
prize
a
Kingdome
;
victory
,
Maiestie
,
and
perpetual
renowne
the
reward
,
this
Lyon-hearted
King
couragiously
charging
his
speare
,
ran
into
the
Battalion
of
his
aduersaries
;
where
,
with
his
owne
hands
hee
slew
the
stout
[
a
](A19354-e2990-b)
a
S.
Wil.
Brandon
Standard-bearer
to
Henry
the
7.
slaine
.
He
was
father
to
Charles
Brandon
,
after
created
D.
of
Suff.
by
Henry
the
8.
Sir
william
Brandon
,
Standard-bearer
of
his
enemy
:
he
ouerthrew
the
strong
and
valiant
Sir
Iohn
Cheney
,
and
singled
out
his
Competitour
:
who
beeing
the
most
Heroick
and
valiant
Prince
of
those
times
,
yet
had
doubtlesse
been
slaine
,
had
not
he
been
rescued
by
S.
William
Stanley
,
who
came
happily
with
three
thousand
men
to
his
rescue
,
who
on
all
sides
encompassing
King
Richard
,
so
assayled
him
,
that
though
he
did
more
then
a
man
,
though
his
Sword
acted
wonders
,
yet
beeing
oppressed
by
so
great
a
multitude
,
hee
was
there
manfully
slaine
;
not
ouercome
,
for
hee
conquered
the
betraiers
of
men
in
danger
,
passion
,
and
feare
.
Thus
lost
he
both
kingdome
and
life
,
but
nothing
diminished
his
interiour
vertues
:
When
the
adiudged
punishment
is
performed
,
our
Laws
do
account
the
offender
as
cleere
of
the
crime
,
as
if
he
neuer
had
committed
it
.
Why
should
this
common
benefit
be
denied
a
King
,
since
if
guilty
,
his
bloud
made
restitution
,
and
being
dead
,
his
royall
body
was
dispoyled
of
all
kingly
ornaments
,
left
naked
,
and
not
only
vnroyally
,
but
inhumanely
,
and
reprochfully
dragged
?
Yet
neither
can
his
bloud
redeeme
him
from
iniurious
tongues
,
nor
the
reproch
offered
his
body
,
be
thought
cruell
enough
,
but
that
we
must
still
make
him
more
cruelly
infamous
in
Pamphlets
and
Playes
.
Compare
him
now
(
iudicious
Reader
)
impartially
with
other
Princes
;
iudge
truely
of
all
their
actions
,
their
forme
of
gouernment
,
and
their
Statutes
and
ordinances
,
the
vpholders
,
the
strength
,
the
sinewes
of
gouernment
;
and
thou
shalt
find
him
as
innocent
of
cruelty
,
extortion
,
and
tyranny
as
the
most
;
as
wise
,
politike
,
and
valiant
as
any
:
if
so
,
censure
him
,
his
actions
,
his
ordinances
,
according
to
their
deserts
,
and
this
Treatise
of
mine
as
a
charitable
well-wishing
to
a
scandalized
and
defamed
king
.
Yet
for
all
this
know
,
I
hold
this
but
a
Paradox
.
FINIS
.
THE
PRAYSE
OF
THE
FRENCH
POCKES
.
IT
is
the
complaint
of
an
ancient
writer
,
Nulla
tam
modesta
foelicitas
est
,
quae
malignitatis
dentes
vitare
possit
:
There
was
neuer
any
felicity
,
whether
moderately
seasoned
,
or
compleat
in
perfection
,
so
happy
;
that
could
auoyde
the
griping
teeth
of
enuie
and
backbiting
.
Out
of
which
naturall
in-bred
malice
,
men
doe
not
sticke
to
defame
and
discredit
the
most
noble
and
illustrious
disease
of
the
French
Pocks
,
and
to
wrong
those
that
be
the
worthy
subiects
in
whom
they
reside
:
insomuch
that
the
very
mention
of
them
is
so
noysome
and
offensiue
,
and
doth
so
much
ouercome
their
stomacks
,
as
the
naming
of
the
things
which
are
the
purgings
of
the
belly
,
and
are
within
the
ward
and
bailiweeke
of
the
girdle
.
Whereas
the
name
of
the
Pocks
is
of
so
reuerend
estimation
,
and
foundeth
so
pleasingly
in
the
eares
of
them
that
are
not
passionate
,
that
euen
Diana
her selfe
whom
the
Paynims
adored
for
their
Goddesse
of
Chastity
and
honesty
,
tooke
her
name
from
them
;
whom
the
Latines
cal
Bubones
,
the
French
Bubes
,
and
the
Spanish
Buvas
;
driue
words
out
of
fashion
,
and
a
notation
of
names
is
of
all
the
Artificiall
Arguments
in
Logick
,
one
of
the
weakest
,
lest
,
by
seeking
to
lift
the
Pasty
by
one
end
,
we
marre
all
;
let
vs
fasten
vpon
some
thing
more
materiall
,
and
from
the
originall
of
the
word
,
come
to
the
beginning
of
the
thing
.
Amongst
those
rich
treasures
,
which
Christopher
Columbus
brought
home
into
Spaine
,
after
his
discouery
of
the
Indyes
,
one
of
the
chiefest
was
the
Pockes
;
For
in
his
Fleete
(
amongst
other
fraught
)
were
wafted
ouer
certaine
Indian
Women
,
with
whose
happy
conuersation
the
Castilians
came
home
plentifully
furnished
with
this
holy
contagion
:
Holy
I
call
it
,
because
the
cure
of
it
is
that
,
which
they
call
lignum
sanctum
,
or
Guaiacum
;
Holy
,
for
the
place
,
where
it
is
healed
,
which
is
the
Hospitall
;
called
by
the
French
,
Maison-Dieu
,
&
holy
,
because
they
are
great
helpes
to
make
them
that
haue
them
,
Saints
.
For
,
whosoeuer
shall
behold
the
outward
mortification
of
a
pocky
companion
,
the
delicacie
of
the
tone
of
his
voyce
;
his
pale
and
meagre
face
;
his
wanne
colour
;
and
his
whole
body
broken
and
disioynted
,
that
a
man
may
shake
all
his
bones
together
in
his
skinne
;
and
lastly
,
shall
see
him
wholy
made
a
very
picture
and
painted
table
of
repentance
;
hee
may
see
sufficient
tokens
(
at
least
wise
)
of
apparant
holinesse
:
for
you
neuer
see
fat
panches
,
and
plumpt
cheekes
,
and
idle
fellowes
euer
admitted
into
the
schoole
of
repentance
;
nor
into
the
Stewes
the
workehouse
of
Courtizans
;
nor
in
the
Hospitall
and
Lazer-house
of
the
Pock-rotten
aduenturers
.
Among
the
three
Capitall
enemies
which
with
fire
and
sword
doe
assaile
the
soule
,
the
greatest
of
them
,
which
is
the
flesh
,
is
wholy
subdued
by
the
Pocks
:
because
by
them
it
is
made
vnable
to
exercise
any
vnlawfull
act
.
Is
there
any
thing
in
the
world
that
doth
more
open
the
gates
to
holinesse
,
then
to
take
away
the
occasions
of
sinning
?
and
what
is
there
that
hath
more
efficacie
to
withdraw
a
man
or
a
woman
from
occasions
of
euill
,
then
this
holy
leaprosie
?
for
if
a
woman
know
that
a
man
hath
the
Pocks
,
she
flies
from
him
as
a
ragged
sheepe
from
a
bramble-bush
.
Againe
,
what
greater
token
of
holinesse
can
there
be
in
a
man
,
then
to
haue
a
sense
and
feeling
of
his
sinnes
?
Now
who
is
he
that
doth
suffer
greater
griefe
and
paines
for
his
sinnes
,
then
he
that
hath
the
Pocks
?
Who
are
more
franke
and
more
bountifull
in
gifts
then
such
men
?
for
a
Pock-master
was
neuer
accounted
a
pild
paltry
fellow
.
For
as
when
wee
see
a
Black-moore
crosse
the
street
,
we
say
,
speaking
by
the
contrary
,
There
goes
Iohn
Blanco
:
or
when
we
see
a
common
woman
,
wee
likewise
say
,
There
goes
a
good
one
:
so
we
call
this
holy
infection
,
the
peeling
disease
,
vnderstanding
that
such
a
one
will
part
with
his
very
skinne
.
All
other
aches
and
paines
haue
some
enemy
that
may
destroy
them
;
or
by
a
bill
out
of
the
Apothecaries
shop
,
like
a
writ
of
Remoue
,
they
may
be
dislodged
;
but
the
Pocks
haue
made
their
peace
with
all
drugs
and
confections
,
there
is
not
found
among
all
the
Phials
and
Gally-pots
any
simple
,
or
syrop
so
powerfull
,
that
can
disturbe
the
Pocks
out
of
their
possession
:
whence
it
is
plaine
,
that
it
is
wrongfully
and
abusiuely
called
an
infirmity
:
for
the
word
infirmitie
argueth
and
importeth
want
of
firmenes
;
whereas
the
Pockes
are
so
farre
from
not
beeing
firme
,
that
to
him
that
hath
once
caught
them
,
they
continue
so
firme
,
so
stable
and
so
well
settled
;
that
they
neuer
forsake
him
,
but
accompany
him
to
his
graue
;
and
I
thinke
,
into
Purgatory
too
,
because
no
lenitiues
,
or
purgations
,
can
either
asswage
their
paine
,
or
driue
them
out
;
surely
so
good
a
thing
neuer
goes
to
Hell
.
They
that
set
out
the
worth
and
greatnesse
of
that
excellent
Poet
Homer
,
ascribe
it
much
to
his
honour
,
that
hee
drew
his
beginning
from
many
Cities
and
Islands
,
as
Smyrna
,
Rhodos
,
Colophon
and
the
like
:
how
much
greater
is
the
honour
of
this
spreading
gangren
of
the
Pocks
,
which
deriues
his
descent
not
from
Ilands
and
Citties
,
but
from
great
kingdomes
and
Prouinces
.
Some
call
it
the
Neopolitane
disease
;
others
the
French
euill
;
some
the
scab
of
Spaine
,
others
the
Indian
Sarampion
or
tetter
,
and
ring-worme
;
Others
that
speake
with
some
reuerence
and
respect
to
these
Lady-mistresses
,
they
feare
to
vsurpe
their
proper
name
;
they
do
not
say
plainly
to
a
man
,
You
are
a
Pockie-knaue
,
but
rather
Vous
auez
,
sir
,
ye
are
pepper'd
;
and
indeed
such
is
the
dignity
and
greatnes
of
this
malander
,
that
they
speake
of
it
,
after
the
stile
of
Kings
and
Dukes
and
Grandes
,
in
the
plurall
number
.
For
whereas
we
commonly
call
blaines
and
sores
in
the
singular
number
,
the
scurfe
,
or
the
scabbe
,
or
the
Winchester
goose
,
these
are
all
saluted
in
the
plurall
number
,
the
Pocks
,
as
if
they
should
stile
themselues
nos
bubones
,
&
pustulae
Gallicanae
.
And
well
doth
this
stile
agree
vnto
them
,
because
they
deale
royally
and
nobly
with
their
attendants
;
for
whereas
in
Princes
Courts
they
that
are
suiters
,
do
not
see
an
end
of
their
pretensions
in
many
yeares
,
and
when
all
comes
to
all
,
they
seldome
reape
the
fifth
part
of
what
they
sued
for
:
these
nobles
do
soone
dispatch
all
that
negotiate
with
them
,
or
plead
at
their
barres
,
wonderfully
well
prouided
for
.
Now
let
not
any
man
obiect
as
an
inconuenient
,
that
the
Pocks
do
peele
all
those
that
are
of
their
fraternity
&
liuery
,
&
make
them
as
bald
as
an
egge
:
for
if
we
consider
it
,
they
do
vnto
them
no
therein
small
benefit
:
For
looke
what
proportion
the
leaues
beare
to
the
Tree
,
feathers
to
a
Bird
,
the
same
haue
the
haires
and
the
bush-naturall
to
a
man
,
that
is
,
they
are
giuen
both
for
an
ornament
and
a
defence
;
for
a
couering
and
for
comlinesse
.
And
seeing
that
Nature
doth
do
trees
a
fauour
,
in
making
them
to
shead
their
leaues
,
and
Fowles
to
moulter
their
feathers
,
that
so
she
may
dight
them
and
cloath
them
yeerely
with
new
;
shee
doth
not
deale
so
with
men
,
but
leaues
them
to
themselues
,
to
effect
it
by
their
own
industry
and
prouidence
,
wherunto
when
they
are
disposed
to
moulter
and
to
doe
off
their
perriwigs
or
perruques
,
the
Pocks
in
this
case
is
Natures
agent
,
which
doth
maintaine
herselfe
with
that
which
is
most
delicate
in
that
subiect
,
such
as
are
the
thin
lockes
of
the
head
,
the
daintines
of
the
eye-liddes
and
the
eye-browes
;
the
venerable
beards
,
&
the
most
valiant
mustaches
:
for
neuer
any
timerous
and
white-liuered
cowards
haue
the
Pocks
,
but
the
most
foole-hardie
aduenturers
are
admitted
into
this
corporation
.
It
is
a
rule
infallible
,
that
men
are
vsually
such
as
are
those
with
whom
they
conuerse
.
And
who
are
they
(
I
pray
you
)
that
are
most
hanted
with
the
Pocks
but
noble
Lords
,
Caualiers
,
and
men
of
high
parentage
?
The
plow-swaine
or
day-labourer
neuer
knew
that
there
was
any
such
thing
in
the
world
as
the
Pocks
;
such
is
their
miserable
ignorance
;
nor
yet
the
Porters
or
Carre-men
are
greatly
troubled
with
this
Luggage
in
their
owne
persons
,
neither
doe
they
euer
descend
so
low
as
to
chare-maids
and
Tankard-bearers
.
But
you
must
seeke
for
them
amongst
the
lusty
gallants
,
and
gay
Ladies
that
ruffle
it
in
silkes
,
and
outward
brauery
▪
And
therefore
may
it
please
thee
to
be
aduertised
,
gentle
Reader
,
whosoeuer
thou
be
that
standest
vpon
complement
;
that
whensoeuer
thou
shalt
salute
such
a
Ladie
or
Caualier
in
the
street
,
by
vailing
thy
bonnet
,
know
,
that
by
that
obeysance
thou
dost
homage
to
two
Grandes
and
great
personages
at
once
,
one
to
the
party
principall
that
is
obuious
to
thy
eye
,
the
other
to
the
Pocks
which
he
carrieth
about
him
.
How
doth
the
world
dote
vpon
Astrologers
and
Starre-gazers
,
that
can
foretell
and
diuine
of
things
to
come
,
whether
they
bee
the
writers
of
the
Greeke
Menologies
and
Calenders
of
the
Monthly
variation
of
dayes
;
or
Prognostications
of
the
changes
of
the
Moone
:
or
dayes
Almanackes
for
the
alteration
of
the
weather
?
Whereas
there
is
no
Astrologer
more
weather-wise
then
a
Pock-master
,
or
whose
predictions
are
more
certaine
:
for
,
if
there
be
any
change
of
weather
or
season
approching
,
presently
the
intrinsecall
Accidents
that
cleaue
to
his
bones
&
sinews
,
do
giue
him
a
perfect
notice
of
it
,
in
that
he
feeleth
an
ache
in
euery
commissure
of
his
ioints
,
and
his
bones
doe
euen
rattle
in
his
skinne
.
Adde
hereunto
,
that
men
thus
affected
(
or
infected
rather
)
haue
this
great
priuiledge
aboue
other
men
,
that
although
they
be
in
vassallage
,
and
slaues
by
condition
,
yet
are
they
obserued
and
respected
as
absolute
Lords
;
and
are
serued
of
euery
bodie
,
whereas
they
serue
none
but
God
,
whom
by
the
Pocks
they
are
brought
to
remember
.
And
see
,
I
pray
you
,
to
what
a
Lordlinesse
they
are
aduanced
,
in
that
not
onely
their
persons
are
in
a
manner
sacred
,
and
may
not
be
approched
,
but
at
a
certaine
distance
;
but
whatsoeuer
is
about
them
,
and
belongs
to
their
necessary
vse
,
cannot
safely
be
touched
of
any
man
,
as
if
they
were
some
holy
Reliques
;
For
no
man
dares
to
lye
in
their
bed
,
or
to
weare
their
clothes
,
or
to
drinke
in
their
cup
,
or
to
sit
in
their
chaires
;
men
willingly
withdrawing
themselues
from
these
things
,
as
from
vessels
consecrated
to
this
great
Idoll
of
the
Bubositie
.
Howbeit
,
it
is
not
greatly
to
be
maruailed
at
;
that
the
Pocks
haue
attained
to
so
high
a
pitch
and
prerogatiue
of
excellency
,
considering
that
the
same
act
and
operation
,
and
the
same
instruments
which
Nature
imployeth
to
produce
a
man
,
which
is
the
noblest
of
her
creatures
;
the
same
are
also
the
generature
causes
of
the
Pocks
;
I
meane
,
the
great
and
honourable
Pocks
:
for
those
other
pushes
and
inflammations
that
arise
in
the
body
,
of
cold
,
or
from
an
ouer-heated
and
exulcerated
liuer
,
are
not
properly
pocks
,
but
pouts
and
pimples
.
So
then
,
this
reason
being
considered
,
the
Pocks
may
very
iustly
take
state
vpon
them
,
and
stand
vpon
puntillos
of
honour
,
and
out-braue
a
man
to
his
face
and
say
,
that
they
are
issued
from
as
good
Parents
as
he
.
And
surely
it
seemes
no
lesse
;
for
as
they
that
are
nobly
borne
,
the
better
to
shew
their
greatnesse
and
to
maintain
their
state
,
they
liue
retiredly
in
the
inmost
and
remotest
roomes
of
their
house
:
so
do
the
Pocks
,
out
of
the
same
rule
and
reason
of
State
,
keep
residence
in
the
very
bones
and
the
marrow
of
him
that
hath
them
;
which
is
the
reason
also
why
for
their
birth
and
honourable
ranke
,
they
finde
place
and
intertainment
in
Loues
Court
,
into
which
nothing
is
admitted
,
but
what
sauoureth
either
of
greatnesse
or
of
goodnesse
,
as
braue
,
resolute
and
determinate
men
;
gallant
and
faire
women
;
free
discourse
;
wanton
witty
Poems
,
and
plenty
of
great
Pocks
.
And
lastly
,
what
greater
token
can
there
be
of
a
Noble
Nature
,
then
to
shew
thankfulnesse
to
those
that
haue
suffered
any
thing
for
their
sakes
,
or
done
ought
to
procure
their
good
?
in
which
kind
of
retribution
the
Pocks
are
no
way
deficient
.
For
whereas
the
nose
in
the
purchase
of
the
Pocks
doth
suffer
a
kind
of
lesion
and
hurt
by
the
arrosion
of
its
gristle
;
to
make
it
ample
amends
and
satisfaction
;
the
pocks
doe
make
the
nose
the
trumpet
,
or
horn-pipe
of
their
owne
prayses
;
whose
gracefull
tone
varied
Chromatically
vpon
the
musicks
and
halfe-notes
of
snuffing
and
snorting
,
is
much
like
the
vntamed
voice
and
braying
of
Silenus
his
hobby-horse
.
Now
if
there
be
any
man
so
ill
an
husband
,
that
amongst
other
things
of
his
owne
getting
and
acquisition
hath
not
been
so
happy
,
as
to
become
owner
of
the
pocks
;
let
him
blame
himselfe
for
an
vnthrift
,
that
hath
mis-pent
his
time
;
and
say
,
that
hee
is
without
them
,
because
they
are
not
within
him
:
or
with
the
Spaniard
,
that
hee
wants
them
,
because
he
is
not
worthy
of
them
:
Yo
no
Lis
padezco
,
Porque
no
las
merezco
.
Carnestoliendas
de
Castilla
.
Noche
tercera
.
FINIS
.
THAT
IT
IS
GOOD
to
be
in
DEBT
.
WEE
are
fallen
into
that
dotage
of
the
World
,
in
which
,
the
worst
things
doe
ouertop
the
worthiest
,
sence
doth
besot
the
vnderstanding
,
drinke
ouercommeth
the
braine
,
and
the
eye
beguyleth
and
misleadeth
the
sight
.
And
therefore
in
tender
commiseration
of
mankinde
,
I
will
endeuour
to
rectifie
their
iudgement
in
a
Paradox
,
then
which
there
hath
none
more
intricate
,
been
discussed
and
canuassed
among
the
Stoiks
in
Zenos
porch
,
that
is
,
That
it
is
better
for
a
man
to
liue
in
debt
,
then
otherwise
.
Ordiar
ab
ouo
,
I
will
begin
from
the
egge
,
that
your
concoxion
may
be
the
easier
.
In
the
whole
course
and
frame
of
Nature
,
we
see
that
nothing
is
made
for
it selfe
,
but
each
hath
a
bond
of
duty
,
of
vse
or
of
seruice
,
by
which
it
is
indebted
to
other
.
The
sunne
by
his
splendor
to
lighten
all
the
world
;
by
his
warmth
and
heate
,
to
cherish
and
comfort
each
liuing
and
vegetable
thing
.
Yea
,
man
himselfe
is
so
framed
of
God
,
that
not
onely
his
Countrey
,
his
Parents
and
his
friends
claime
a
share
in
him
,
but
he
is
also
indebted
to
his
dogge
,
and
to
his
Oxe
,
to
teach
the
one
to
hunt
for
his
pleasure
,
the
other
to
labour
for
his
profit
:
so
that
quicquid
habet
genij
,
ingenij
,
moris
,
amoris
,
the
abilities
of
his
spirit
,
the
affections
of
his
mind
,
he
hath
them
for
others
,
asmuch
as
for
himselfe
;
nay
the
more
for
others
,
by
how
much
hee
desireth
to
be
the
greater
Lord
ouer
others
.
Let
him
but
looke
into
himselfe
,
and
see
how
his
constitutiue
parts
are
debters
each
to
other
,
the
soule
doth
quicken
and
giue
life
to
the
body
,
the
body
like
an
Automaton
,
doth
moue
and
carry
it selfe
and
the
soule
.
Suruey
him
in
his
parts
,
the
eye
seeeth
for
the
foote
,
the
foote
standeth
for
the
hand
,
the
hand
toucheth
for
the
mouth
,
the
mouth
tasteth
for
the
stomacke
,
the
stomacke
eateth
for
the
whole
body
,
the
body
repayeth
backe
againe
that
nutriment
which
it
hath
receiued
,
to
al
the
parts
,
discharging
the
retriments
by
the
Port-Esquiline
;
and
all
this
in
so
comely
an
order
,
and
by
a
Law
so
certaine
,
and
in
so
due
a
time
,
as
if
Nature
had
rather
man
should
not
haue
been
at
all
,
then
not
to
be
a
debter
in
euery
part
of
him
;
which
hath
made
me
resolue
,
that
to
whomsoeuer
I
meane
to
bee
a
friend
,
I
will
striue
to
be
in
his
debt
:
and
what
can
I
do
lesse
?
for
to
him
that
doth
mee
a
good
turne
,
I
am
bound
to
returne
him
the
greatest
pleasure
;
which
I
can
no
way
do
,
but
by
being
in
his
debt
:
for
what
contentment
will
it
be
vnto
him
,
when
I
shall
repay
him
his
owne
againe
?
The
Alchymists
,
who
promise
to
themselues
to
turne
Tin
into
siluer
,
and
Copper
into
gold
,
how
will
they
bee
transported
out
of
themselues
with
ioy
,
if
they
should
but
see
a
happy
issue
of
their
attempt
?
How
much
more
a
Creditor
,
when
hee
shall
recouer
a
desperate
debt
?
It
is
like
the
ioy
of
a
Father
that
receiues
his
lost
Child
.
Againe
,
he
that
is
in
debt
,
hath
this
great
priuiledge
aboue
other
men
,
that
his
Creditors
powre
out
hearty
prayers
for
him
,
they
wish
that
hee
may
liue
,
and
thriue
and
prosper
,
and
grow
rich
,
and
all
for
their
owne
aduantage
.
They
seeme
to
be
carefull
for
their
debtors
,
that
they
may
not
lose
their
principall
with
the
interest
,
for
their
money
is
their
life
,
witnesse
those
Vsurers
of
France
,
who
,
when
they
heard
that
the
price
of
Corne
was
fallen
,
went
and
hanged
themselues
for
griefe
.
What
a
command
doth
the
debtor
gaine
ouer
his
Creditors
?
He
becommeth
in
a
manner
their
Landlord
,
to
whom
they
cap
,
crouch
,
and
kneele
,
as
if
they
did
owe
him
all
suits
and
seruices
,
and
are
as
ambitious
of
their
fauours
,
as
they
who
in
Rome
did
canuas
the
people
for
their
voices
to
attaine
the
greatest
offices
:
but
here
is
their
cunning
:
Laudant
vt
Leadant
,
they
praise
them
,
that
they
may
prey
vpon
.
And
therefore
,
you
braue
gallants
and
spend-thrifts
,
who
find
by
your
wofull
experience
,
that
no
whip
giues
a
shrweder
lash
then
the
label
of
a
Bond
or
Obligation
,
with
a
Nouerint
vniuersi
Skinner
and
Lacy.
Whensoeuer
you
fall
into
the
Mercers
books
,
neuer
take
care
,
or
make
conscience
of
paying
your
debts
,
for
by
that
meanes
you
shall
keepe
your
Creditor
in
awe
,
and
shall
haue
him
wonderfull
courteous
and
officious
,
and
obsequious
towards
you
,
and
a
great
mint-master
of
faire
words
.
Without
debt
and
loane
the
Fabricke
of
the
world
will
be
disioynted
and
fall
asunder
into
its
first
Chaos
.
The
beauty
of
the
Starres
,
what
would
it
be
but
vastnesse
and
deformity
,
if
the
Sunne
did
not
lend
them
light
?
The
earth
would
remaine
vnfruitfull
,
if
shee
did
not
borrow
refreshing
dewes
from
the
watery
Signes
and
Planets
.
The
Summer
is
pleasant
,
and
promiseth
great
hopes
of
plenty
,
but
it
is
,
because
it
taketh
vp
much
vpon
trust
,
from
the
friendly
and
seasonable
temperment
of
the
Elements
.
And
to
say
the
truth
,
there
is
nothing
good
or
great
in
the
world
,
but
that
it
borroweth
something
from
others
to
make
it
great
,
or
lendeth
to
another
to
make
it
good
.
And
therefore
I
maruaile
why
Antiquity
,
who
made
Mildew
,
The
Elements
who
are
linked
together
by
a
league
of
association
,
and
by
their
symbolizing
qualities
,
doe
barter
and
truck
,
borrow
and
lend
one
to
another
,
as
being
the
Bursse
,
and
Royall-Exchange
of
nature
:
they
are
by
this
traffique
and
intercourse
,
the
very
life
and
nourishment
of
all
sublunary
bodies
,
and
therefore
are
called
Elimenta
quasi
alimenta
,
whose
happy
concord
&
coniunction
hath
brought
forth
those
,
whom
the
World
for
the
good
done
to
mankind
,
hath
esteemed
gods
,
as
Bacchus
the
great
Vintner
,
Ceres
the
Meale-mother
,
Flora
the
Tutty-maker
,
Vertumus
and
Pomona
Costard-mongers
.
Now
,
if
euery
man
would
render
and
repay
in
full
waight
,
that
which
by
due
debt
he
oweth
and
hath
borrowed
from
others
,
Saturnes
golden
age
would
returne
againe
,
in
which
there
was
no
difference
of
metals
,
but
gold
and
siluer
were
all
one
Oare
,
and
made
the
yelke
of
the
earth
,
Natures
great
Egge
,
neither
did
Meum
and
Tuum
bound
out
,
and
apportionate
Lands
and
Lordships
,
by
meare
stones
,
and
diuersity
of
Tenures
of
sockage
and
focadge
;
since
when
,
Qui
habet
terras
,
habet
guerras
,
and
the
King
of
heauens
peace
hath
been
disturbd
amongst
men
:
but
then
all
things
were
all
mens
,
as
necessitie
did
allot
and
award
,
who
was
then
the
onely
iudge
and
arbitrator
,
competently
allowing
to
euery
man
,
that
which
he
stood
in
need
of
.
With
what
dearenesse
haue
both
gods
and
good
men
countenanced
and
graced
debtors
?
To
whom
Diana
the
great
goddesse
of
Ephesus
,
granted
her
Temple
for
a
Sanctuarie
,
to
keepe
them
out
of
Bagwell
:
Pigeon-houses
.
Or
if
they
were
caught
,
Solon
by
a
solemne
Law
inacted
,
would
not
haue
their
bodies
to
be
fettered
or
manacled
amongst
malefactors
,
but
that
they
should
enioy
their
liberty
throughout
all
the
Parkes
and
Purlues
of
the
prison
,
or
to
speake
more
mildly
,
of
their
restraint
&
indurance
:
For
the
Prison
is
built
Purgatory-wise
,
after
the
Architecture
of
Rome
,
with
a
Limbus
and
Tullianum
.
The
dungeon
is
the
Deuils
pinfold
and
the
very
suburbs
of
Hell
,
where
varlets
,
roarers
,
and
stilettostabbers
are
let
downe
,
as
the
proper
food
that
stuffes
that
great
greedy
maw
.
The
next
roome
is
the
Lollard
of
trunck-hosed
famulists
and
separatists
,
who
after
they
haue
been
rowelled
in
the
neck
,
to
cure
them
of
the
Megrim
of
the
head
,
they
are
by
the
gentle
flame
of
this
Stoue
,
and
the
heate
of
their
owne
zeale
,
made
to
sweat
out
their
contumary
and
other
peccant
humors
.
The
vpper
skirt
and
stage
of
this
building
,
is
the
Garret
of
expencefull
wasters
,
gamesters
and
vnthrifty
debtors
,
where
though
they
liue
robbed
of
their
liberty
,
as
they
rifled
others
of
their
money
.
Yet
is
it
their
great
happinesse
,
that
being
glutted
,
as
it
were
,
with
an
Apolausticke
voluptary
life
,
they
haue
an
easie
ouverture
made
to
the
contemplatiue
and
practick
life
of
Vertue
.
Who
euer
liued
more
like
a
Souc'd-gurn-head
amongst
men
,
then
Diogenes
the
Cynick
,
barrelling
himselfe
vp
in
his
tubbe
like
a
Kegge
of
Sturgion
?
Yet
was
the
happinesse
of
his
contented
life
enuied
of
the
greatest
Monarchs
,
who
hauing
made
their
throats
the
through-face
and
the
cullenders
of
meats
&
drinkes
,
found
an
ouergorged
belly
,
to
be
Wits
clog
,
Reasons
sepulcher
,
Lusts
Arsenall
,
the
Magazin
of
lewd
practices
,
and
the
Nurserie
of
all
vices
:
all
which
prouocations
are
defalted
by
Debts
wants
and
indigency
.
And
lastly
,
the
Lumbards
,
Vsurers
,
and
Scriueners
,
who
are
the
Bedles
of
Beggars
,
and
are
accounted
the
Tetters
vpon
the
body
politike
of
the
Common-weale
,
who
turne
the
Calends
and
new
Moones
,
and
the
Festiuall
dayes
of
quarter-gaudies
,
into
the
Octanes
of
disaster
and
Doomes-day
reckonings
,
when
any
of
these
come
to
Heauen
,
there
is
a
wonderment
amongst
the
Angels
,
and
they
cry
out
with
Sr.
Gurman
of
Alfarache
,
fruta
nueua
,
fruta
nueua
,
heere
is
a
new
kind
of
fruit
start
vp
,
a
Pumparadise
vpon
a
crab-stocke
,
Lumbards
and
Scriueners
are
become
the
Popes
cannonized
and
beatified
saints
.
Farewell
then
,
Vlpianus
,
Modestinus
,
and
other
pettifoggers
of
the
Law
,
Sollicitours
,
and
molesters
of
causes
,
who
account
being
in
debt
a
kind
of
bondage
and
seruitude
.
I
pittie
Senecaes
weakenesse
,
who
blushed
to
borrow
;
miserum
verbum
et
dimisso
vultu
proferendum
,
Rogo
:
To
you
my
Purse
,
and
to
none
other
Wight
Complaine
I
,
for
you
be
my
Lady
deere
:
I
am
sorry
now
that
you
be
light
,
For
certes
yée
now
make
me
heauie
chéere
,
Mée
were
as
lefe
layd
vpon
a
Béere
.
For
which
vnto
your
mercie
thus
I
cry
,
Be
heauy
againe
,
or
else
mote
I
dye
.
Now
vouchsafe
this
day
,
or
it
be
night
,
That
I
of
you
the
blisfull
sound
may
heere
,
Or
see
your
colour
,
like
the
Sunne
bright
.
That
of
yellownesse
had
neuer
Pere
,
Ye
be
my
life
,
ye
be
my
hearts
flere
;
Queene
of
comfort
and
of
good
company
,
Be
heauy
againe
,
or
else
mote
I
dye
.
Now
Purse
,
that
art
to
me
my
liues
light
And
sauiour
as
downe
in
this
World
here
,
Out
of
this
Towne
helpe
me
by
your
might
,
Sith
that
you
will
not
be
my
Treasure
,
For
I
am
shaue
as
neere
as
any
frere
:
But
I
pray
vnto
your
curtesie
,
Be
heauy
againe
,
or
else
mote
I
die
.
Yet
wellfare
the
Prodigall
vnthrift
,
who
is
magis
promus
quam
condus
,
and
serues
at
the
Buttry-hatch
,
whatsoeuer
is
in
his
Binn
or
his
Barrell
,
and
therefore
could
neuer
indure
the
complaint
of
his
Purse
,
who
thus
bemoan'd
her selfe
vnto
him
.
Materia
infoelix
,
detracta
cadauere
;
forma
,
tam
varia
,
vt
nec
ego
me
mihi
nosse
queam
.
Haud
melius
fatum
,
nam
pendeo
more
latronis
,
ingenium
sic
me
fueris
habere
putant
.
Si
dederis
seruo
;
seruatum
reddo
petenti
non
nisi
at
auriculis
tracta
referre
volo
.
A
skinne
flayed
off
,
yeelds
my
materialls
,
my
forme
is
various
,
where
my selfe
I
loose
,
My
doome's
a
fellons
death
and
funerals
,
for
at
a
Belt
I
am
hanged
by
a
nooze
.
I
doe
not
filch
for
mine
owne
thrift
and
gaine
,
but
what
you
giue
,
I
closely
keepe
and
beare
,
And
when
you
aske
,
I
it
restore
againe
,
yet
not
,
except
you
plucke
me
by
the
eare
.
For
the
Al-te-mael
,
and
foote
of
the
reckoning
,
this
is
the
summa
summarum
:
Debemur
morti
nos
nostraque
.
So
that
whilst
I
liue
,
I
must
resolue
to
liue
in
debt
,
in
debt
to
God
,
for
my
being
;
in
debt
to
CHRIST
,
for
my
well-being
;
in
debt
to
Gods
sanctifying
Spirit
,
for
my
new-being
:
And
I
will
euer
be
ready
to
pawne
my
life
for
my
Countries
liberty
,
I
will
owe
obedience
to
my
Parents
,
Faith
and
Loyaltie
to
my
Prince
:
And
when
I
shall
pay
my
great
debt
vnto
Nature
,
I
will
render
my
spirit
into
the
hands
of
God
;
bequeath
my
body
to
be
deposed
in
the
lap
and
bosome
of
the
earth
,
and
cry
,
Domine
,
dimitte
debita
mea
.
FINIS
.