But marke how vengeaunce wayteth vpon vice, To shun this storme, in sayling towardes _Fraunce_, A pyrat’s barke, that was of litle price,[766] Encountred mee vpon the seas by chaunce, Whose captayn there tooke mee, as in a traunce,[767] Let passe my shippes with all theyr frayt and loade, And led mee backe againe to[768] _Douer_ roade. 25. Where vnto mee recounting all my[769] faultes, As murdering of duke _Humfrey_ in his bed, And how I had brought all the realme to naughtes, Causing[770] the king vnlawfully to wed, There was no grace but I must lose my head: Wherefore hee made mee [to] shriue mee in his bote, And on the brinke my[771] necke in two hee smote.[772] 26. This was mine end: which was by reason due To mee, and such as other’s deaths procure: Therefore bee bold to write, for it is true, That who so doth such practise put in vre, Of due reward at last shal be most sure, For God is iust, whose stroke delayed long, Doth light at last with paine more sharpe and strong.[773] W. B.[774] [Whan this was sayd, euery man reioysed to heare of a wicked person so righteously punished:[775] for though fortune in many points bee iniurious to princes, yet in this and such like she is most righteous: and only deserueth the name of a goddesse, whan she prouideth meanes to punishe and destroy tyrantes. And when we had a while considered the driftes of the king and queene to haue saued this duke: and yet they could not: “It is worth the labour,” sayd one, “to way the workes and iudgements of God: which seeing they are knowen most euidently by comparing contraries, I will touch the story of _Iacke Cade_ in order next following, whome king _Henry_, with all his puissaunce, was no more able for a while to destroy (yet was hee his rebellious enemy), than hee was to preserue the duke of _Suffolke_ his dearest friend: by which two examples doth appeare howe notably God disposeth all things, and that no force stretcheth farther, than it pleaseth him to suffer. For this _Cade_ being an _Irisheman_ but of meane parentage, of no ability,[776] and lesse power, accompanied with a fewe naked _Kentishemen_, caused the king with his army at all poynts appointed, to leaue the field, and suffer him to do whatsoeuer hee lusted [for a time, but in the end hee was slaine at _Hothfielde_ in _Sussex_, and caried thence to _London_ in a cart, and there quartered.][777] In whose behalfe, seeing he is one of fortune’s whelpes, I will trouble you a while to heare the processe of his enterprise, which hee may declare in maner following.”]