For now alone hee ruleth as him lust, Ne recketh[187] for reade, saue of king _Edwarde’s_ mother:[188] Which forced enuy foulder[189] out the rust, That in men’s hartes before[190] did lye and smother: The peeres, the people, as well the one as other,[191] Against him made so haynous a complaynt, That for a traytour hee was taken and attaynt.[192] 5. Then all such faultes as were forgot afore,[193] They skowre afresh, and somwhat to them adde: For cruell enuy[194] hath eloquence in store, When fortune bids to worse things meanly badde:[195] Fiue haynous crimes agaynst him soone were had, First, that hee causde the king to yeelde the _Scot_, To make a peace, townes that were from him got:[196] 6. And therewithall the charter called _Ragman_, That of the _Scots_ hee had[197] bribed priuy gayne,[198] That through[199] his meanes sir _Edwarde_ of _Carnaruan_, In _Barkeley_ castle most[200] trayterously was slaine: That with his prince’s mother hee had layne, And finally with polling[201] at his pleasure, Had robde[202] the king and commons of theyr treasure. 7. For these things lo, which erst were out of minde, Hee was condempned,[203] and hanged at the last,[204] In whome dame fortune fully shewed her kinde, For whom shee heaues shee hurleth downe as fast: If men to come would learne by other past, This cosin of mine might[205] cause them set aside High climing, bribing, murdering, lust, and pride.[206] 8. The finall cause why I this processe tell, Is that I may bee knowen from this other, My like in name, vnlike mee, though hee fell, Which was I thinke[207] my grandsire, or his brother: To count my kin, dame _Phillip_ was my mother, Deare[208] daughter and heyre of douty _Lionell_, The second son of a king who did[209] excell.[210] 9. My father hight sir _Edmund Mortimer_, True[211] earle of _March_, whence I was after earl By iust[212] discent, these two my parentes were, Of which the one of knighthood bare the ferll, Of womanhood the[213] other was the pearle: Through theyr desert so calde of euery wight, Till death them tooke, and left mee in[214] theyr right.[215] 10. For why th’attaynter of my[216] elder _Roger_, (Whose shamefull death I tolde you but of late) Was founde to bee vniuste, and passed ouer,[217] Agaynst the lawe, by those that bare him hate: For where by lawe the lowest of[218] free estate Should personally bee hearde ere iudgement passe, They barde him this, where through distroyde he was.[219] 11.