This tragicall example was of all the company well liked, howbee it a doubt was found therein, and that by meanes of the diuersity of the chronicles: for whereas _Hall_ (whose chronicle in this worke wee chiefly followed) maketh _Mowbrey_ appellant and _Bolinbroke_ defendant, _Fabian_ reporteth the matter quite contrary, and that by record of the parliament roll, wherein it is playne that _Bolinbroke_ was appellant and _Mowbrey_ defendant.[372] Wherefore whatsoeuer shall bee sayde here in the person of _Mowbrey_, (who being a most noble prince, had too much wrong to bee so causeles defamed after his death) imagine that to bee spoken agaynst his accuser. Which matter[373] sith it is more hard to decide than needefull to our purpose, which minde only to disswade from vices and exalt vertue, wee referre to such as may come by the recordes of the actes of the parliament,[374] contented in the meane while with Maister _Halle’s_ iudgement, which maketh best for[375] our forshewed purpose. This doubt thus let passe. “I would,” sayde Maister _Ferrers_, “say somewhat for king _Richard_,[376] after whose depriuing, his brother[377] and diuers others made a maske, minding by king[378] _Henrye’s_ destruction to haue restored him, which masker’s matter so runneth in this, that I doubt which ought to goe before, but seeing no man is ready to say ought in theyr behalfe, I will giue (who so listeth) leasure to looke[379] therevpon, and in the meane time to furder your enterprise, I will in king _Richarde’s_ behalfe[380] recount such part of his story as I thinke most necessary. And therefore imagine _Baldwine_ that you see the corps of this prince all[381] to be mangled with blewe woundes, lying pale and wan, all naked vpon the cold stones in[382] _Paule’s_ church, the people standing round about him, and making his complaynt in manner as followeth.”[383] How King _Richard_ the second was for his euill gouernaunce deposed from his seate, in the yeare 1399, and murdered in prison[384] the yeare following. 1. Happy is the prince, that hath in welth the grace To followe vertue, keeping vices vnder,[385] But woe to him whose will hath wisdome’s place: For who so renteth right and lawe asunder, On him at length all the worlde shall wonder: High byrth, choyce fortune, force, nor princely mace,[386] Can warrant king or keyser fro the case: [Shame sueth sinne, as rayne drops doe the thunder:[387] Let princes therefore vertuous life embrace,[388] That wilfull pleasures[389] cause them not to blunder.] 2.