This king (some write) in his sicknes last Sayde, as it were by way of prophecye, How that the deuill a darnell grayne had cast Among his kin, to encrease enmity, Which should remayne in theyr posterity Till mischiefe and murder had spent them all, Not leauing one to pisse against the wall. 16. And yet from him in order did succeede In _England_ here of crowned kinges, fourteene Of that surname, and of that line and seede, With dukes and earles, and many a noble queene, The numbre such as all the world would weene, So many ympes could neuer so be spent, But some heyr male should bee of that discent. 17. Which to bee true if any stand in doubt, Because I meane not further to digresse, Let him peruse the storyes[719] throughout Of _English_ kinges whom practise did oppresse, And hee shall finde the cause of theyr distresse From first to last, vnkindly to begin Alwayes by those that next were of the kin. 18. Was not _Richard_, of whom I spake before, A rebell playne vntill his father dyed, And _Iohn_ likewise an enmy euermore To _Richard_ agayne, and for a rebell tryed? After whose death, it cannot bee denied, Agaynst all right this _Iohn_ most cruelly, His brother’s children caused for to dye. 19. _Arthur_ and _Isabell_ (I meane) that were _Ieffrey’s_ children, then duke of _Britayne_, _Henrye’s_ thyrd sonne, by one degree more neere Then was this _Iohn_, as storyes shew most playne, Which two children were famisht or els slayne By _Iohn_ theyr eame, cald _Saunzterre_ by name, Of whose foule act all countreys speake great shame. 20. _Edward_ and _Richard_, second both by name, Kinges of this land, fell downe by fatall fate: What was the cause that princes of such fame Did leese at last theyr honour, life, and state? Nothing at all, but discord and debate, Which when it haps in kinred, or in bloud, _Erynnis_ rage was neuer halfe so wood. 21. Be sure therefore, ye kinges and princes all, That concord in kingdomes is chiefe assuraunce, And that your families doe neuer fall, But where discord doth leade the doubtfull daunce With busy brawles, and turnes of variaunce: Where malice is minstrel, the pype ill report, The maske mischiefe, and so endes the sport. 22.