[Whan stout _Richarde_ had stoutely sayd his minde: “Belike,” sayd[599] one, “this _Richard_ was but a litle man, or els litle fauoured of the[600] writers, for our cronicles speake very litle of him. But seeing wee be come nowe to king _Henrie’s_ voyage into _Fraunce_, we cannot lacke valiaunt men to speake of, for among so many as were led and sent by the king out of this realme thyther, it cannot be chosen but some, and that a great somme were slayne among them: wherefore to speake of them all, I thinke not needefull. And therefore to let passe _Edwarde_ duke of _Yorke_, and the earle of _Suffolke_, slayne both at the battayl of _Agïncourt_, as were also many other, let vs end the time of _Henry_ the fift, and come to his sonne _Henry_ the sixt: whose nonage brought _Fraunce_ and _Normandy_ out of bondage, and was cause that so[601] few of our noble men died aged: of whome to let passe the nombre, I will take vpon mee the person of _Thomas Montague_, earle of _Salisbury_, whose name was not so good at home (and yet hee was called the good earle) as it was dreadful abroade: who exclayming vpon the mutability of fortune may iustly say[602] in maner as followeth.”] How _Thomas Montague_ Earle[603] of Salisbury in the middest of his glory, was chaunceably slayne at Orleaunce[604] with a piece of ordinaunce, the 3. of Nouember, Anno 1428.[605] 1. What fooles bee we to trust vnto our strength, Our wit, our courage, or our noble fame, Which time it selfe must nedes deuour at length, Though froward fortune could not foile the same: But seeing this goddesse guideth all the game, Which still to chaunge doth set her onely lust, Why toyle wee so for thinges so harde to trust? 2. A goodly thing it is, surely, good report,[606] Which noble hartes doe seeke by course of kinde: But seeing[607] the date so doubtfull and so short, The way so rough whereby wee doe it finde, I cannot choose but prayse the princely minde That preaseth for it, though wee finde opprest, By foule defame, those that deserue it best. 3. Concerning whome, marke, _Baldwine_, what I say, I meane the vertuous, hindred of their brute, Among which nombre reckon well I may My valiaunt father _Iohn_ lord _Montacute_, Who lost his life I iudge through[608] iust pursute: I say the cause and not the casuall speede Is to be wayed, in euery kinde of deede. 4.