1 QVID gloriaris in malitia potens? 2 Iniquitatem tota die, iniustitiam cogitauit lingua tua, sicut nouacula acuta fecistidolum, 3 Dilexisti malitiam super bonitatem, iniustitiam magis quàm loqui iustitiam, 4 Dilexisti omnia verba demersionis lingua dolosa, 5 Propterea Deus destruat te in finem, euellat te & emigrare te faciat de tabernaculo tuo, & radicem tuam de terra viuentium, 6 Videbunt iusti & timebunt, & super eum ridebunt, & dicent, 7 Ecce homo qui non posuit Deum adiutorem suum, sed sperauit in multitudine diuitiarum suarum, & præualuit in vanitate sua. 1 WHY boastest thou that thou canst do mischiefe? 2 Thy toong imagineth wickednesse, & with lies thou cuttest like a sharpe rasor, 3 Thou hast loued vngratiousnesse more than goodnesse, and to talke of lies more than righteousnesse, 4 thou hast loued to speake all words that may doo hurt ô thou false toong, 5 Therefore shall God destroie thée for euer, he shall take thée, and plucke thée out of my dwelling, and roote thée out of the land of the liuing, 6 The righteous also shall sée this, and feare, and shall laugh him to scorne, 7 Lo this is the man that tooke not God for his strength, but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches, & strengthned himselfe in his wickednesse. [Sidenote: Simon de Reading executed.] [Sidenote: _Caxton._] [Sidenote: The earle of Arundell taken.] [Sidenote: _Th. Walsing._] [Sidenote: Execution.] [Sidenote: The fauour in which the lord Mortimer was with the quéene.] On the same daie was Simon de Reading drawne and hanged on the same gallowes, but ten foot lower than the other. This Reading being marshall of the kings house, had vsed the quéene very vncourteouslie, giuing hir manie reprochfull words, which now were remembred, and therefore may serue for an example, how dangerous a thing it is to speake euill of the higher powers. The common fame went, that after this Hugh Spenser the sonne was taken, he would receiue no sustenance, wherefore he was the sooner put to death, or else had he béene conueied to London, there to haue suffered. Iohn earle of Arundell was taken on S. Hughs day, in the parts about Shrewesburie, and the same day seuennight before the execution of the earle of Glocester, Hugh Spenser the yoonger, as well the said earle, who had béene euer a great fréend to both the Spensers, as also Iohn Daniell, and Thomas de Milcheldoure were put to death at Hereford, by procurement of the lord Mortimer of Wigmore, that hated them extreamelie, by reason whereof they were not like to spéed much better, for what he willed the same was doone, and without him the quéene in all these matters did nothing. [Sidenote: Robert Baldocke ended his life.] [Sidenote: 1327.] [Sidenote: A parlement.] [Sidenote: The king is deposed by act of parlement.] [Sidenote: The archbishop of Canturburie preacheth.]