They know no law of armes,[241] nor none will learne, They make not warre (as other doe) a play: The lord, the boy, the gallowglas, the kerne, Yeelde or not yeelde, whome so they take they slay: They saue no prisoners[242] for ransome nor for pay: Theyr chiefest boote they counte theyr bodoh’s heade,[243] Theyr end of warre to see theyr enmy deade.[244] 19. Amongst these men or rather sauage beastes I lost my life, by cruell murder slayne: And therefore, _Baldwine_, note thou well my geastes, And warne all princes rashnes to refrayne: Bid them beware theyr enmies when they faine,[245] Nor yet presume vnequally to striue: Had I thus done, I had beene man aliue.[246] 20. But I dispised the naked _Irish_ men, And, for they flew, I feared them the lesse: I thought one man enough to match with ten, And through this carelesse vnaduisednes I was destroyde, and all my men I gesse,[247] At vnawares assaulted by our foen, Which were in nombre forty to vs one. 21. See here the stay of fortunate estate, The vayne assurance of this brittle life:[248] For I but yong-proclaymed prince of late, Right fortunate in children and in wife,[249] Lost all at once by stroke of bloudy knife: Whereby assurde let men themselues assure, That welth and life are doubtfull to endure. Ca.[250] THOMAS DUKE OF GLOCESTER. [After this tragedy was[251] ended, maister _Ferrers_ sayde: seeing it is best to place eche person in his order, _Baldwine_, take you the chronicles and marke them as they come: for there are many worthy to bee noted, though not treated[252] of. First the lord _Murrey_, a _Scotishman_, who tooke his death’s wound through a stroke lent him by the earle of _Notyngham_, whom hee chalenged at the tylt.[253] But to omit him, and also the fatte pryor of _Tiptre_, pressed to death with throng of people vpon _London_ bridge at the queene’s entry,[254] I will come to the duke of _Glocester_, the king’s vncle, a man mynding[255] the common welth, and yet at length miserably made away. In whose person if yee will gieue eare, yee shall heare what I thinke meete to be saied.] How Syr _Thomas_ of _Woodstocke_ Duke of Glocester, vncle to King_Richarde_ the second, was vnlawfully murdered, Anno 1397.[256] 1.