And so it was: for when the realme decayed By such as good king _Henry_ sore abused, To mend the state I gaue his enemies ayde: But when king _Edward_ sinfull prankes still vsed, And would not mend, I likewise him refused, And holp _Henry_, better[1141] of the twayne, And in his quarell (iust I thinke) was slayne. 18. And therefore, _Baldwine_, teach by proofe of mee, That such as couet people’s loue to get, Must see theyr workes and wordes in all agree, Liue liberally and keepe them out of det, On common welth[1142] let all theyr care be set: For vpright dealing, dets payd, poore sustayned, Is meane whereby all heartes are throwly gayned.[1143] [As soone as the earle had ended this admonition: “Sure,” sayd[1144] one, “I thinke the earle of _Warwicke_ (although hee were a glorious man) hath sayd no more of himselfe then what is true. For if hee had not had notable good vertues, or vertuous qualities, and vsed laudable meanes in his trade of life, the people would neuer haue loued him as they did: but God be with him, and send his soule rest, for sure his body neuer had any. And although he dyed, yet ciuil warres ceased not. For immediately after his death came queene _Margaret_ with a power out of _Fraunce_, bringing with her her yong son prince _Edward_: and with such friends as she found here, gaue king _Edward_ a battayl at _Tewkesbury_, where both she and her son were taken prisoners with _Eadmund_ duke of _Somerset_ her chiefe captayne: whose son lord _Iohn_, and the earle of _Deuonshyre_ were slayn in fight,[1145] and the duke himselfe with diuers other immediately beheaded. Whose infortunes are worthy to be remembred, chiefly prince _Edward’s_, whome the king for speaking trueth cruelly stroke with his gauntlet, and his brethren tyrannously[1146] murdered. But seing the time so far spent, I will passe them ouer, and with them _Fauconbridge_ that ioly rouer beheaded at _Southampton_: whose commotion made in _Kent_, was cause of sely _Henrye’s_ destruction. And seing king _Henry_ himselfe was cause of the destruction of many noble princes, being of all other most infortunate himselfe, I will declare what I haue noted in his vnlucky life: who wounded in prison with a dagger, may lament his wretchednesse in maner following.”] How King _Henry_ the sixte, a vertuous Prince, was, after many other miseries, cruelly murdered in the Tower of London, the 22 of May, Anno 1471.[1147] 1. If euer woefull wight had cause to rue his state, Or by his ruefull plight to moue men mone his fate, My piteous plaint may please my mishap to reherse, Whereof the least most lightely heard, the hardest hart may perce. 2.