Great Britain -- History -- Poetry; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources
[650] The heire (sir Stephen de Veignolles) perceiuynge the hartes,
corage, and defence of the Englishe people, caused thre culuerynes to
be shot emongest theim, whereof one strake the erle (of Arundel) on the
ancle, and so brake hys legge that for pain he fell from hys horsse,
then the Frenche men entered emongest the Englishe army, and tooke the
erle beyng on the grounde, prisoner.... The erle was caried to Beauoys,
where of this hurte he shortly died, and was buried in the frier’s
minors. He was a man of a singuler vertue, constancie and grauitie,
whose death in so troubelous a worlde, did sore appall the hartes of
his nacion. _Hall._
[651] Anno 1437, added. 1571.
[652] Write. 1559, 63, 71.
[653] For fault of foode. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
[654] A trusted brother ’stroy hys brother’s blood. 1559, 63. Trusted
brother distroy. 1571.
[655] Hys deth. 1559, 63.
[656] To auoyd. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
[657] Me prysoner. 1559, 63, 71.
[658] An, misprint. 1587.
[659] This young prince and Henry Percie, sonne to the lorde Percie
slaine before at Shrewesbury, by rigor of tempest were driuen on the
cost of Holdeines, called Flamborough hed, the xxx daie of Marche,
where the yonge prince for to refreshe hymselfe toke lande. He wrought
not so preuely, but he was knowen and taken with all his company, and
conueighed to the kyng beynge at Winsore. _Hall._
[660] I were. 1559, 63, 71.
[661] Before that tyme the people of Scotland were rude, rusticall,
without any vrbanitie, hauyng litle lernyng, and lesse good maners, and
good qualities least of all. This prince beeyng XVIII. yeres prisoner
within this realme, was so instructed and taught by hys schoolmaster,
and pedagoges apointed to hym by the onely clemencie of the kynge, that
he not onely florished in good learnynge and freshe litterature (as
the tyme then serued) but also excelled in all poynctes of marciall
feates, musicall instrumentes, poeticall artes and liberall sciences.
In so muche that at hys returne from captiuitee, he furnished hys
realme bothe with good learnynge and cyuill policye, whiche before was
barbarous, seuage, rude, and without all good nurtur. _Hall._
[662] The protector of the realme of Englande, by the consent of
the whole baronage of the same gaue to him in maryage the lady Jane
doughter to Jhon earle of Sommerset, desceased, not onely syster to
Iohn then duke of Sommerset, but also cosyn germayne remoued to the
kynge and nece to the cardynall of Winchester and the duke of Exceter.
_Hall._
[663] The heyre. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.
[664] Mardo, in ed. 1587; all the others support the above correction.
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