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A02389	The last part of the Mirour for magistrates wherein may be seene by examples passed in this realme, vvith howe greenous [sic] plagues, vyces are punished in great princes & magistrats, and hovv frayle and vnstable vvorldly prosperity is founde, where fortune seemeth most highly to fauour.; Mirrour for magistrates. Part 3.	Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563?; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.	1578 (1578)	STC 1252; ESTC S100555	162,047	374

an horses Sunne To presse his pride might nothing els him rule His boastes to proue no more but did him run The horse for swiftnes hath his glory wonne The Mule coulde neuer the more aspyer Though hee should proue that Pegas was his Sier Ech man crake of that which was his owne Our Parentes vertues are theirs and no w●it ours Who therefore wil of noble byrth be knowen Ought shine in vertue like his Auncestours Gentry consisteth not in Landes and Towers Hee is a churle though all the World were his Yea Arthurs heyre if that hee lyue amisse For vertuous lyfe a Gentleman doth make Of her possessour all be he poore as Iob Yea thoughe no name of elders he can take For proofe take Merlin fathered by an Hob. But who so sets his minde to spoyle and rob Although he come by due discent from Brute He is a chorle vngentle vile and brute Well thus did I for want of better witte Because my parents naughtely brought me vp For Gentlemen they sayd was nought so fitte As to attast by bould attemptes the cup Of conquestes wyne wherof I thought to sup And therefore bent my selfe to rob and ryue And whome I could of Laudes and goods depriue For Henry the fourth did then vsurpe the Crowne Despoyled the Kinge with Mortimer the heyre For which his subiectes sought to put him d●wne And I while Fortune offered mee so fayre Did what I might his honour to appayre And tooke on mee to bee the Prince of Wales Entiste thereto by prophecies and tales For which sutch Idle as wayte vpon the spoyle From euery part of VVales vnto mee drew For loytering youth vntaught in any toyle Are ready aye all mischiefe to ensue Through helpe of these so great my glory grewe That I defyed my Kynge through lofty harte And made sharpe VVarre on all that tooke his parte See lacke I took Lord Raynold Gray of Rythen And him enforst my Daughter to espouse And so vnraunsomed I held him still and sythen In Wigmore lande through battayle rigorous I caught the right heire of the crowned house The Earle of March sit Edmond Morti●●er And in a Dungeon kept him prisoner Than all the Marches longinge onto Wales By Seuerne West I did inuade and burne Destroyed the Townes in Mountaynes and in Vales And rich in Spoyles had homeward saulfe returne VVas none so hold durst once against me spurne Thus prosperously doth Fortune forwarde call Those whom shee mindes to geue the sorest fall VVhan Fame had brought these tidings to the King Although the Scottes than vexed him right sore A mighty army agaynst mee he did bring VVhereof the French Kinge beinge warned afore VVho mortall hate against Kinge Henry bore To greue our For he quickly to mee sent Twelue Thousand Frenchmen Armed to Warre and bent A part of them led by the Earle of Marche Lord Iames of Burbon a Valiaunt tried Knight VVich held by Windes to Wales ward forth to march Tooke Land at Plimmouth priuely an a night And whan hee had done all that he burst or might After that a meyney of his men were ●ayne Hee stale to Ship and sayled home agayne Twelue thousand moe in Milford did ariue And came to me then lyinge at Denbigh VVith armed Welshmen Thousandes double fyue VVith whom wee went to Worcester well nigh And there Encampt vs on a mount on high To abide the kinge who shortly after came And pitched his field on a hill hard by the same There eight dayes longe our Hoastes lay face to face And neyther durst others power assayle But they so stopt the passages the space That victayles coulde not come to our auayle VVhere through constraynde our heartes began to fayle So that the Frenchmen shranke away by night And I with mine to the Mountaynes tooke our flight The Kinge pursued greatly to his cost From Hilles to Woods from Woods to Valleis playne And by the way his men and stuffe bee lost And whan hee sawe hee gayned nought but payne Hee blewe retreate and gat him home agayne Then with my power I boldly came abrode Taken in my Countrey for a very God. Immediatly after fell a Iolly Iarre B●twene the Kinge and Percies worthy blouds VVhich grew at last vnto a deadly Warre For like as drops Engender mighty Flouds And litle seedes sprut forth great Leaues and buds Euen so small striues if they bee suffered run Brede wrath and warre and death or they bee don The Kinge would haue the Raunsome of sutch Scots As these the Percies tane had in the fielde But see how st●ongly lacre knits her knots The Kinge will haue the Percies will not yeeld Desire of gooos some craues but graunteth seeld Oh cursed goods desire of you hath wrought All wickednes that hath or can bee thought The Percies deemed it meeter for the King To haue redeemed their Coosin Mortimer VVho in his Quarell all his power did bring To fight with mee that tooke him Prysoner Than of their pray to rob his Souldier And therefore willed him see some meane were ●ound To quite forth him whom I kept vily bound Bycause the Kinge misliked their request They came themselues and did accord with mee Complayninge how the Kingdome was opprest By Henries rule wherefore wee did agree To put him downe and part the realme in three The North part theirs Wales wholly to bee mine The rest to rest to Th' earle of Marches Line And for to set vs hereon more agog A Prophet came a vengeaunce take them al Affirminge Henry to bee Gog magog VVhom Merlin doth a Mould warp euer call Accurst of God that must bee brought in thrall By a Wolfe a Dragon and a Lion strong VVhich should deuide his Kingdome them among This crafty dreamer made vs three sutch beastes To thinke wee were the foresayd beastes in deede And for that cause our Badges and our Creastes VVee searched out which scarsely well agreed Howbeit the Haroldes redy at sutch a neede Drewe downe sutch Issues from olde Auncesters As proued these Ensignes to bee surely oures Yee crafty Welshemen wherefore do yee mocke The noble men thus with your fayned rimes Yee Noble men why flye yee not the Flocke Of sutch as haue seduced so many times False Prophesies are Plagues for diuers crimes VVhich God doth let the deuilish sort deuise To trouble sutch as are not godly Wise And that appeared by vs three beastes in deede Through false perswasion highly borne in hand That in our feate wee could not chuse but speede To kill the Kinge and to enioy his Land For which exployt wee bound our selues in band To stand contented ech man with his parte So fully folly assured our foolish harte But sutch they say as fishe before the Net Shall seldome surfet of the Pray they take Of thinges to come the haps bee s● vnset That none but Fooles may warrant of them make The full assured successe doth oft forsake For Fortune findeth none so fyt to flout As suresby Sots which

His atteindre appering erroneous The King the Lordes and Cammons of assent His lawlesse death vnlawful did discusse And both to bloud and good restored vs A president worthy in record left Lordes lygnes to saue by lawles meanes bereft Whyle Fortune thus did frendly me reteyne Rychard the king that second was by name Hauing none heire after him to reigne Made me his mate in earnest and in game The Lordes themselues so wel allowd the same That through my titles ●ulye comming downe I was made heire apparaunt to the crowne Who then but I was euery where esteemed Wel was the man that vnderstoode my ●ert Whom I allowed as Lordes the People deemed And me to serue was euery mannes entent With all that wyt or cunning could inuent To me as prince attended great and small In hope a day would come to pay for all But seeldome ioye continueth trouble voyde In greatest charge cares greatest do ensue The most possest are euer most anoyed In largest seas sor● tempestes lightly brue The freshest colours soonest chaunge their hue In thickest place is made the diepest wounde True proofe whereof my selfe to soone haue found For whiles Fortune so luld me in her lap And gaue me giftes more than I did require The double Dame behynde me set a trap To dash me downe and laye all in the myre The Irish Kernes agaynst mee did conspyre My Landes of Vlster vniustly to bereaue Which my mother for heritage did me leaue And whyles I there to set all thinges in staye Omit my toyles and troubles thytherwarde Among mine owne with my retinue laye The wylder sort whom I did least regard And therfore the rechlesse mannes reward When least I thought set on me in such number That fro my corps the lyfe they set asunder Nought might auayle my courage nor my force Nor helpe of frendes which were alas to few The cruel folke assaulted so my horse That all my helpes in pieces they to hew Our bloud distaind the ground as drops of dewe Nought might preuayle to flye or yet to yelde For whom they take they murther in che fielde No law of Armes they know nor none wil learne They make not warre as other do a play The Lord the Boy the Gallowglasse the Kerne Yeeld or not yelde whom so they take they slaye They saue no prisoners for raunsome nor for paye Their booty chiefe they coumpt a deadmans heade Their end of warre 's to see their enemie dead Amongest these men or rather sauage beasts I lost my lyfe by cruel murther slayne And therfore Baldwin note thou well my gestes And warne all princes rashnes to refrayne Bid them beware their enemies when they fayne Nor yet presume to make their match amisse Had I not so done I had not come to this At naught I set a sort of naked men And much the lesse seeming to flye away One man me thought was good ynough for ten Making small account of number more or lesse Madnesse it is in warre to goo by gesse At vnwares assaulted by our fone Which were in number fourtie to vs one See here the slay of pompe and highe estate The feeble hold of this vncerteyn lyfe For I but young proclaymed Prince but late Hauing fayre fruict by my belooued wyfe Lost all at once by stroake of bloudy knife Whereby assurde let men themselues assure That wealth and lyfe are doubtful to endure FINIS T. Ch. AFter this Tragedye ended Mays●er Ferrers sayde seeinge it is beste to place eche person in his order Baldwin take you the Chronicles marke them as they come for there are many worthye to bee noted thoughe not treated of First the Lorde Murrey a Scottish man who tooke his deathes wound through a stroake lent him by the Earle of Notingham whom he chalenged at the Tylt But to omit him and also the fatte Pryor of Typtre pressed to death with thronge of People vppon London Bridge at the Queenes entrye I wyll come to the Duke of Glocester the kinges vncle a man mynding the common wealth and yet at length miserably made away in whose person if ye wil geeue eare ye shal heare what I thinke meete to be sayd HOVVE SIR THOMAS of VVoodstocke Duke of Glocestre Vncle to King Rychard the second was vnlawfully murdered Anno. 1397. WHo stablisht is in State seeming most sure And so far from daunger of Fortunnes blast As by the compas●● o● mannes coniecture No brasen pylter may be fyxt more fast Yet wanting the stay of prudent forecast Whan froward Fortune list for to frowne May in a moment turne vpside downe In proofe whereof O Baldwin take payne Turne thine care to Thomas of Woodstocke Prest in presence on Fortune to complaine In the forlorne hope of English flocke Who by discent was of the royall stocke Sonne to king Edward third of that name And second to none in glorye and fame This noble father to maynteyn my state With Buckingham Earledome did me i●dowe Both Nature and Fortune to me were grate Denying mee nothing which they might allow Their sundrye graces in me did so flowe As beautye strength high fauour and fame Who may of God more wish then the same Brothers we were to the number of seuen I beeing the sixt and youngest but one A more royall race was not vnder heauen More sto●t or more stately of stomacke person Princes al peerelesse in ech condition Namelye syr Edward called the blacke Prince When had England the like before or euer since But what of all this any man to assure In state vncarefull of Fortunes variaunce Syth daylye and hourelye wee see it in vre That where most cause is of affiaunce Euen there is found most weake assuraunce Let none trust Fortune but folow reason For often wee see in trust is treason This prouerbe in proofe ouer true I tryed Fynding high treason in place of high trust And most false fayth where I most affyed Beinge by them that should haue bene iust Trayterouslye entrapt ere I could mistrust Ah wretched world what is it to trust thee Let them that wil learne now harken to mee After king Edward the thirdes decease Succeeded my Nephewe Richard to raigne Who for his glory and honours encrease Wich princely wages did me entertaine Against the Frenchmen to be his Chieftayne So passing the Seas with royall puissaunce With God and S. George I inuaded Fraunce Wastinge the country with sword and with fyre Ouer turning townes high Castles and towers Like Mars God of warre enflamed with ire I forced the Frenchmen t' abandon their bowers Where euer we matcht I wan at all howers In such wise visiting both Cittie ad village That alway my souldiers were laden with pyllage With honour and tryumph was my returne Was none more ioyous than young king Richard Who minding more highlye my state to adourne With Glocestre Dukedome did me reward And after in mariage I was prefarde To a daughter of Bohun an Earle honourable By whom I was of England

cast no kinde of doubt How sayest thou Henry Hotspur do I ly For thou right manly gauest the Kinge a Fielde And there wast slayne because thou wouldst not flye Syr Thomas Percy thine Vncle forst to yeelde Did cast his head a wonder seene but seelde From Shrewsbury towne to the tope of London Bridge Lo thus fond hope did both their liues Abridge VVhan Kinge Henry this Victory had wonne Destroyed the Percies put their power to slight Hee did appoinct Prince Henry his eldest Sonne VVith all his power to meete mee if hee might But I discomfit through my Partners fight Had not the heart to meete him face to face But fled away and hee pursued the Chase Now Baldwin marke for I calde Prince of Wales And made beleeue I should bee hee in deede VVas made to fly amonge the Hilles and Dales VVhere all my men forsooke mee at my neede VVho trusteth Loyterers seeld hath lucky speede And whan the Captayne 's Courage doth him fayle His Souldiers hearts a litle thinge may quayle And so Prince Henry chased mee that lo I founde no place wherein I might abyde For as the Dogges pursue the sely Doe The Brache behinde the Houndes on euery side So traste they me amonge the Mountaynes wyde VVhereby I founde I was the heartlesse Hare And not the beast Colprophet did declare And at the last like as the little roche M●st eyther be eat or leap vpon the shore VVhen as the hungery pickerell doth approche And there finde death which it escapt before So double death assaulted mee so sore That eyther I must vnto myne Enmy yeelde Or starue for hunger in the barrayne feelde Here shame and payne a while were at a strife Payne bad mee yeeld shame bad mee rather fast The one badad spare the other bad spend my life But shame shame haue it ouercame at last Than hunger stronge that doth the stonewale brast Forst mee to feede on Barke of trees and Wood And last of all to g●aw my flesh and bloud This was mine ende to horrible to beare Yet good enough for him that did so ill VVhereby O Baldwin warne men to forbeare The vayne desires when w●● doth yeld to will Bi● Princes flye Colprophetes lyinge skill And not presume to climbe aboue their states For they bee faultes that foyle men not their fates FINIS Th. Ph. WHan mayster Phaer had ended the Tragedy of thys hunger staruen Prynce of Wales it was well liked of all the company that a Saxō would speake so mutch for a B●ytton then sodenly one found a doubt worth the mouinge and that cōcerning this title Thearle of March for as it appereth there were three men of three diuers nations together in one time entituled by that honour first sir Edmund Mortimer whom Owē kept in Prison an Englishman the second y Lord George of Dunbar a valiaunt Scot banished out of his countrey well esteemed of Henry the .iiij the third Lord Iames of Bourbon a Frenchman sent by the French king to helpe Owen Glendour These three men had this title all at once which caused him to aske how it was true that euery one of these coulde be Earle of Marche whereto was aunswered that euery countrey hath Marches belonging vnto them those so large that they were Earldomes the Lords thereof intituled thereby so the lord Edmūd Mortimer was Earle of Marche in England lorde Iames of Burbō of y Marches of Fraunce and Lord George of Dunbar Earle of the Marches in Scotland For otherwise neyther could haue interest in others title This dout thus dissolued maister Ferrers sayd if no mā haue affection to the Percies let vs passe the times both of Henry the fourth and the fift and come to Henry the sixt in whose time Fortune as she doth in the mynority of Princes bare a great stroke among the nobles And yet in Henry the fourths time are examples which I would wish Baldwin that you shoulde not forget as the conspiracy made by the Byshop of Yorcke and the Lord Mowbray sonne of him whom you late treated of pricked forward by the Earle of Northumberland father to sir Henry Hotspur who fled himselfe but his partners were apprehended put to death with Baynton and Blinkinsops which could not se their duty to their king but tooke parte wyth Percy that banished Rebell As he was proceedinge hee was desired to stay by one which had pondered the story of the Percies who briefly sayde To the ende Baldwin that you may knowe what to saye of the Percies whose story is not all out of memory and it is an notable story I wyll take vpon me the person of the Lord Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland father of Syr Henry Hotspur in whose behalfe this may be sayde as followeth * ⁎ * ❧ HOVV HENRYE Percy Earle of Northumberlande was for his couetous and trayterous attempt put to death at Yorke Anno. 1407. O Moral Senec true finde I thy sayinge That neither kin riches strength or fauour Ace free from Fortune but are aye decayinge No worldly wealth is ought saue doubtful labour Mans life in Earth is like vnto a Tabour Which now to myrth doth mildly men prouoke And straight to Warre with a more sturdy stroke All this full true I Percy finde by proofe Which whilom was Earle of Northumberland And therefore Baldwin for my Piers behoofe To note mens falles sith thou hast tane in hande I would thou should my state well vnderstand For fewe Kinges were more than I redoubted Whom double Fortune lifted vp and louted As for my kinne their noblenesse is knowen My valiaunt actes were folly for to prayse Where through the Scots so oft were ouerthrowen That who but I was doubted in my dayes And that king Richard found at all assayes For neuer Scots rebelled in his raygne But through my force were eyther caught or slaine A Brother I had was Earle of Worcester Alwayes in Office and Fauour with the King And 〈◊〉 my W●fe Da●e Elinor Mortimer A Sonne I had which so the Scots did sting That being yonge and but a very spring Hen●y Ho●spur they gaue him unto name And though I say it hee did deserue the same We three triumphied in Kinge Richards tyme Til● Fortune ought both him and vs a spite But chiefely mee whom clearely from any crime My Kinge did banishe from his fauour quite Proclayminge mee a tra●terous Knight VVhere through false slaunder forced mee to bee That which before I did most deadly flee Let men beware how they true folke defame Or threaten on them the blame of vices nought For Infamy breedeth wrath wreke followeth shame Eke open slaunder oftentimes hath brought That to effect that erst was neuer thought To bee misdeemed men suffer in a sort But noue can beare the griefe of misreporte Because my Kinge did shame mee wrongfully I hated him and so became his foe And while hee did at Warre in Ireland lye I did conspire to turne his Weaie to woe And through the Duke of Yorcke and other moe All Royall power from him wee quickly toke And gaue the same to Henry Bolenbroke Neither did wee this onely for this cause But to say truth force draue vs to the same For hee despisinge God and all his lawes Slewe whom hee woulde made sinne a very game And seeinge neyther age nor counsayle could him tame VVee thought it well done for the Kingdomes sake To leaue his rule that did all rule forsake But when sir Henry had attaynd his place Hee straight became in all poynctes worse than hee Destroyed the Piers and slewe Kinge Richardes grace Against his othe made to the Lordes and mee And seeking Quarels howe to disagree Hee shamelesly required mee and my Sonne To yelde him Scots which wee in Fielde had wonne My Nephew also Edmonde Mortimer The very heyre apparaunt to the Crowne VVhom Owen Glendour helde as prisoner Vilely bound in Dungeon deepe cast downe Hee would not Raunsome but did selly frowne Against my Brother and mee which for him spake And him Proclaymed Traytour for our sake This foule despite did cause vs to conspire To put him downe as wee did Richard erst And that wee might this matter set on fire From Owens Iayle our Coosin wee remeerst And vnto Glendour all our griefes reherst VVho made a bond with Mortimer and mee To priue the Kinge and part the Realme in three But when king Henry heard of this deuise Toward Owen Glendour he sped him very quicke My ●ding by force to stop hur enterpryse And as the deuil would than fel I sicke Howbeit my brother and sonne more pollitike Than prosperous with an host from Scotland brought Encountred him at Shrewesbury where they fought The one was tane and ●yld the other slaine And shortly after was Owen put to flight By meanes whereof I forced was to fayne That I knew nothing of the former fight Fraud oft auayles more than doth sturdy might For by my fayning I brought him in belife I knew not that wherein my part was chiefe And while the kyng thus toke me for his frend I sought all meanes my former wrong to wreake Which that I might bring to the soner end To the bishop of Yorke I did the matter breake And to th' earle Marshall likewise did I speake Whose father was through Henryes cause exiled The bishops brother with trayterous death defiled These strayt assented to do what they could So did the Lord Hastings and Lord Faucōbridge Which altogether promised they would Set all their power the kinges dayes to abridge But see the spite before the byrdes were flydge The Kinge had word and seasoned on the nest Whereby alas my frendes were all opprest The bloudye Tyraunt brought them all to end Excepted me which into Scotland skapt To George of Dunbar th </body></html>