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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20131	Strange histories, of kings, princes, dukes earles, lords, ladies, knights, and gentlemen With the great troubles and miseries of the Dutches of Suffolke. Verie pleasant either to bee read or sunge, and a most excellent warning for all estates.	Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600.	1602 (1602)	STC 6566; ESTC S105282	16,744	48

him all was past When thus he was deposed quite of that which was his lawfull right In prison ws he kept full close without all p●ttie or remorce And those that shewd him fauour still were taken from him with ill will Which when the Earle of Kent did here who was in bloud to him full neere He did intreate most earnestly for his release and libertie His words did much the Queene displease who said he liu'd too much at ease Vnto the Bishop did shee goe of ●ertford his deadly foe And ●uell letters made him wright vnto his keepers with dispight You are to kind to him quoth shee henceforth more straighter looke you bèe And in their writing subtillie they sent them word that he should die The Lord Matreuers all dismaid vnto Sir Thomas Gourney said The Queene is much displeas'd quoth he for Edwards too much libertie And by her letters doth bewray that soone he shall be made away T is best Sir Thomas then replide the Queenes wish should not be denide Thereby we shall haue her good-will and keepe our selues in credite still Of King Edward the second being poysoned The Argument ¶ How the King was poisoned and yet escaped and afterward how when they saw that thereby he was not dispatched of life they locked him in a most noysome filthie place that with the stinke thereof he might be choaked and when that preuailed not how they thrust a hot burning spit into his fundament till they had burnt his bowels within his bodje whereof he dyed Or how can the te●e Cant. vjj. THe Kings curst keepers ayming at reward hoping for fauour of the furious Queene On wretched Edward had they no regard far from their hearts is mercie mooued cleene Wherefore they mingle poyson with his meate Which made the man most fearefull for to eate For by the taste he oftentimes suspected the venome couched in a daintie dishe Yet his faire bodie was full sore infected so ill they spiced hath his fleshe and fishe But his strong nature all their craft beguiles the poyson breaking foorth in blames and byles An vgly scabbe ore spreds his Lyllie skinne foule botches breake vpon his manly face This sore without and sorrowfull within the dispisde man doth liue in loathsome case Like to a Lazer did he then abide that shewes his sores along the hiewaies side But when this practise prooued not to their minde and that they saw he liu'd in their dispight Another dam'd deuice then they finde by stinking fauours for to choake him quight In an od corner did they locke him fast hard by the which their carrton they did cast The stinch whereof might be compared well nie to that foule lake where cursed Sodome stood That poysoned birdes which ouer it did flie euen by the sauour of that filthie mud Euen so the smell of that corrupted den was able for to choake ten thousand men But all in vaine it would not doe God wot his good complexion still droue out the same Like to the boyling of a seething pot that castes the scumme into the fierce flame Thus still he liu'd and liuing still they sought his death whose downefall was alreadie wrought Loathing his life at last his keepers came into his chamber in the dead of night And without noise they entred soone the same with weapons drawne torches burning bright Where the poore prisoner fast asleepe in bed lay on his belly nothing vnder his head The which aduantage when the murderers saw a heauie table on him they did throw Wherewith awakt his breath he scant could drawe with waight thereof they kept him vnder so Then turning vp the cloathes aboue his hips to hold his legges a couple quickly skips Then came the murtherers one a horne had got which far into his fundament downe he thrust Another with a spit all burning hot the same quite through y e horne he strongly pusht Among his intrels in most cruell wise forcing hereby most lamentable cries And while within his body they did keepe the burning spit still rolling vp and downe Most mournefully the murthered man did weepe whose wailefull noise wakt many in the towne Who gessing by his cries his death drew neere tooke great compassion on that noble Peere And at each bitter skroeke which he did make they praide to God for to receiue his soule His gastly grones inforst their harts to ake yet none durst goe to cause the bell to towle Ha me poore man alacke alacke he cried and long it was before the time he dyed Strong was his heart a long it was God knowes ear it would sleepe vnto the streke of death First was it wounded with a thousand woes before he did resigne his vitall breath And being murdered thus as you doe heare no outward hurt vpon him old appeare This cruell murder being brought to passe the Lord Matreuers to the Court doth hies To shew the Queene her will performed was great recompence he thought to get thereby But when the Queene the sequell vnderstands dissemblingly shee weepes and wrings her handes Ah cursed traytor hast thou slaine quoth shee my noble weded Lord in such a sort Shame and confusion euer light on thee O how I griefe to heare this vile reporte Hence cursed catiue from my sight shee said that hath of me a wofull widdow made Then all abasht Matreuers goes his way the saddest man that euer life did beare And to Sir Thomas Gurney did bewray what bitter speech the Queene did giue him there Then did the Queene out-law them both together and banisht them faire Englands bounds for euer Thus the dissembling Queene did seeke to hide the heinous act by her owne meanes effected The knowledge of the deed shee still denied that shee of murder might not be suspected But yet for all the subtiltie shee wrought the truth vnto the world was after brought Of the Lord Matreuers and Sir Thomas Gurney being banished The Argument ¶ The dolefull lamentation of the lord Matreuers and Sir Thomas Gurney being banished the Realme Cant. VIII Or to the tune of light of loue Alas that euer that day we did see that false smiling fortune so fickle should bee Our miseries are many our woes without end to purchase vs fauour we both did offend Our deedes haue deserued both sorrow and shame but woe worth the persons procured the same Alacke and alacke with griefe we may crie that euer we forced king Edward to die The Bishop of Hereford ill may he fare he wrote vs a letter for subtiltie rare To kill princely Edward feare not it is good thus much by his letter we then vnderstood But curst be the time that we tooke it in hand to follow such counsell and wicked command Alacke and alacke with griefe we may crie that euer we forced King Edward to die Forgiue vs sweet Sauiour that damnable deed which causeth with sorrow our harts for to bleed And taking compassion vpon our distresse put far from thy pretence our great