This all my friendes haue founde, and I haue felt it so, Ordaynd to be the touch of wretchednes and woe: For ere I had a yeare possest my seat agayne, I lost both it and liberty, my helpers all were slaine. 36. For _Edward_ first by stelth, and sith by gathred strength, Arriude, and got to _Yorke_ and _London_ at the length: Tooke mee and tyed mee vp, yet _Warwicke_ was so stout, Hee came with power to _Barnet_ fielde, in hope to helpe mee out: 37. And there, alas, was slaine, with many a worthy knight: O Lord, that euer such lucke should hap in helping right: Last came my wife and sonne, that long lay in exile, Defied the king, and fought a fielde, I may bewaile the while. 38. For there mine onely sonne, not thirteene yeares of age, Was tane, and murdered straight by _Edward_ in his rage: And shortly I my selfe, to stint all furder strife, Stabde with his brother’s bloudy blade in prison lost my life. 39. Lo, here the heauy haps which happened mee by heape, See here the pleasaunt fruites that many princes reape, The painefull plagues of those that breake theyr lawfull bandes, Their meede which may and will not saue their friendes fro bloudy handes. 40. God graunt my woefull haps, too greeuous to rehearce, May teach all states to knowe, howe deepely daungers pearce, How fraile all honours are, how brittle worldly blisse, That warned through my fearefull fate, they feare to doe amisse.[1161] [This tragedy ended, another sayd: “Either you or king _Henry_ are a good philosopher, so narowly to argue the causes of misfortunes? but there is nothing to experience which taught, or might teach the king this lesson. But to proceede in our matter, I finde mention here, shortly after the death of this king, of a duke of _Excester_ found dead in the sea betweene _Douer_ and _Calais_, but what hee was, or by what aduenture hee died, maister _Fabian_ hath not shewed, and maister _Hall_ hath ouerskipped him: so that except wee be friendlier vnto him, hee is like to be double drowned, both in sea, and in the gulfe of forgetfulnes.” About this matter was much talke, but because one tooke vpon him to seeke out that story, that charge was committed to him. And to bee occupied in the meane while, I haue found the story of one drowned likewise, and that so notably, though priuely, that all the world knew of it: wherefore I sayd: “Because night approacheth, and that wee will lose no time, yee shall heare what I haue noted concerning the duke of _Clarence_, king _Edward’s_ brother, who all to bee washed in wine, may bewayle his infortune after this maner.”]