For when my father through disease and age, Unwieldy was to gouerne well his land, Because his brother _Walter_ seemed sage, Hee put the rule thereof into his hand: Than had my father (you shall vnderstand) Of lawfull barnes mee and one only other, Nempt _Dauy Rothsay_, who was mine elder brother. 3. This _Dauy_ was prince of _Scotland_, and so take Till his aduoutry caused men complayne: Which that hee might by monishment forsake, My father prayed mine uncle take the payne, To threaten him his vices to refrayne: But hee false traytor, bucherly, murdering wretch, To get the crowne began to fetch a fetch. 4. And finding now a proffer to his pray, Deuised meanes my brother to deuour, And for that cause conuayde him, day by day, From place to place, from castle vnto towre, To _Faulkland_ fort, where like a tormentour Hee starued him, and put to death a wife Whom through a reede hee suckt to saue his life. 5. O wretched death, fye cruell tyranny, A prince in pryson lost for want of foode![653] Was neuer enmy wrought such vilany, A trusty brother destroy his brother’s bloode:[654] Woe worth so friendly, fye on double hoode: Ah, wretched father, see thy sonne is lost, Starued by thy brother whome thou trustedst most. 6. Of whom when some beganne to finde the fraud, (And yet the traytor made himselfe so cleare, That hee should seeme to haue deserued laud, So woefull did hee for his prince[655] appeare) My doubtfull father, louing mee full deare, T’avoyde[656] all daunger that might after chaunce, Sent mee away, but nine yeares olde, to _Fraunce_. 7. But windes and weather were so contrary, That wee were driuen to the _English_ coast, Which realme with _Scotland_ at that time did vary, So that they tooke mee as prysoner,[657] not as[658] hoast:[659] For which my father, fearing I was[660] lost, Conceiued shortly such an inward thought, As to the graue immediatly him brought. 8. Then had mine uncle all the regiment At home, and I in _England_ prisoner lay: For to himselfe hee thought it detriment For my release any ransome for to pay, For as hee thought hee had possest his pray: And therefore wisht I might in duraunce dure Till I had died, so should his raigne be sure. 9.