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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

death opprest None ayde I lackt in any wicked deede For gayinge Gulles whom I promoted had Would further all in hoope of higher ●eede There can no Kinge ymagin ought so bad But shall fynde some to do the same most glad For sicknesse seldome doth so swiftly breede As humours ill do growe the griefe to feede Thus Kinges estatas bee worst of all bestad A●usde to wealth abandoned at neede And nearest harme when they be least adrad My lyfe and death the truth of this hath tryed For whyle I sought in Ireland with my foes Myne vncle Edward whom I left to guide My Realme at home rebelliously arose Traytors to helpe which plied my depose And cald fro Fraunce Earle Bolenkroke whom I Exiled had for ten yeares there to lye VVho tyrantlike did execute all those That in mine ayde durst looke but once awry Of which sort sooneafter some their liues did lose For comming backe this soden stur to staye My Steward false to whom I trusted most VVhiles I in Wales at Flint my castle laye Both to refresh and multiply myne Oste There in any Hall mindinge to fly the Coast His Staffe did breake which was my household stay Bad ech make shift and rode himselfe away See Princes see the strength whereof wee boast VVhom most wee trust at neede do vs Betray No better stay then in a rotten Post My Steward false thus being fled and gone My seruantes slye shrancke of on euery syde Then caught I was end led vnto my soen Who for their Prince no Pallaice did prouide But prison strong where Henry puft with pryde Causde we resigne abandonig my throane And so forsaken and left as post alone These holow frendes ●y Henrye sone espyed Became suspect and faith was geeuen to none Which caused them from fayth agayn to slyde Conspiring streight their new Prince to put downe Which to performe a solempne othe they swore To tender me my sce●ter and my crowne Wherof themselues depriued me before But ●ate medcines can helpe no festred sore When swelling flouds haue ouerflowen the towne To late it is to saue them that shal drowne Tyl sayles he spred a shyppe may keepe the shore No anchor hold can keepe the vessel downe When winde and streame hath set the seas in rore For though the P●eres set Henrye in such state Yet could they not dispiace him thence agayne And where with ease my pride they did abate They ●ere to weake to set me vp agayne Thinges hardly mend but may be mard amayne And when a man is fallen by froward fate Stil mischiefes ●ight one on anothers pace And meanes w●l ment al mishaps to restraine Waxe wretched moanes whereby his ioyes a bate Due proofe whereof in this appeared playne For whan the kinge did know that for my cause His Lordes in Maske would murder him by ●ight To da●h al doubtes he tooke no further pause But Pi●rs of Exto● a cruel cutt throate knight To P●●fret Castel sent with great dispite Who reft my lyfe by force against al Lawes Thus lawlesse lyfe to lawlesse death ay drawes Wherfore 〈◊〉 kinges be rulde and rule by right And so I end concluding with this clause That God though sate at last wil surely smyte FINIS G. F. WHen Maister Ferrers had ended this so woful a Tragedye and to all Princes a right worthy instruction hauing passed through a miseable time full of piteous Tragedies we paused a while And seeing the reign of Henry the fowerth ensued a Prince more ware and Prosperous in his doinges although not vntroubled with warres both of outfoorth and inward enemies we began to search what Peer●s were fallen therein where of the nomber was not small And yet because their examples were not much to be noted for our purpose we passed ouer all the Maske●s of whom king Richardes brother was chiefe which were al slaine and put to Death for their trayterous attempt And fynding Owen Glendour a great Prince in Wales next in succesion of ill Fortune with the stout Percies his confederates I thought it not meete to ouerpasse so great persons with silence and therefore sayd thus to the sylent company What my maisters is euery man at once in a browne study hath no mā affectiō to any of these stories you minde so much some other belike that these do not moue you and to say the truth there is no special cause why they should Howe be it Owen Glendour because he was one of Fortunes owne darlingrs and affected to bee Monark of Wales although to his owne mischiefe and destruction rather then he should be forgottē I wil pray Maister Phaer who of late hath placed hymselfe in that country haply hath met with his ghost in the forest of Kylgarran that he wil say somwhat in his person which Owen comming out of the wylde Mountaines of Wales like the image of Death in al pointes his harte onely excepted as a ghost forpined with extreame famine cold and hunger may lamente his great misfortune in sutch maner as you maister Phaer are able most aptly to vtter and set forth HOVV OVVEN GLENdour seduced by false Prophecies tooke vpon him to be Prince of VVales was by Henry Prince of England chased to the Mountaynes where he most miserably starued for hunger Anno. 1401. I Pray thee Baldwin sith thou dost entend To shewe the fall of sutch as climbe to hye Remember mee whose miserable ende May teach all men Ambition to flye Oh false Fortune Fortune vengeaunce on thee I crye VVhich offeringe a Sop of sweete receyt Haste made me byte the Hooke in steede of Bayt A Brytton borne and of the Tropan bloud But ill brought vp whereby full well I finde That neyther byrth nor Linage make vs good Though it be true that Cat will after kinde Fleshe gendreth fleshe but not the Soule or Minde They gender not but fouly do degender When men to vice from vertue they surrender Eche thinge by nature tendeth to the same Whereof it came and is disposed like Downe sincks the mould vp mountes the fiery flame With Horne the Hart with Hoofe the Horse doth strike The Wolfe doth spoyle the suttle Foxe doth pike And to conclude no fishe fleshe foule or plant Of their true dame the property doth want But as for men syth seuerally they haue A minde whose maners are by learninge made Good bringinge vp al onely doth them saue In honest actes which with their Parentes fade So that true gentry standeth in the trade Of vertues life not in the fleshly lyne For bloud is brute but Gentry is deuine Experience doth cause me thus to say And that the rather for my countrey men Which vaunt boast themselues aboue the day If they may straine their stocke fro worthy men VVhich let be true are they the better then Nay farre the worse if so they bee not good For why they stayne the beuty of ther blood How would we mocke the burden bearinge Mule If hee would brag he were