Thus whan the linage of the _Mortimers_ Was made away by his[980] vsurping line, Some hang’d, some slaine, some pined prisoners, Because the crowne by right of lawe was mine, They gan as fast against mee to repine, In feare alwayes, least I should stur them to[981] strife, For guylty hearts haue neuer quiet life.[982] 10. Yet at the last, in _Henrye’s_ dayes the sixt, I was restored to my father’s landes, Made duke of _Yorke_: where through my minde I fixt To get the crowne and kingdome in my handes, For ayde wherein I knit assured handes With _Neuil’s_ stocke, whose daughter was my make, Who for no woe would euer mee forsake.[983] 11. O Lord, what hap had I through mariage, Fower goodly boyes in youth my wife shee bore Right valiaunt[984] men and prudent for their age, Such brethren[985] shee had and nephues [still] in store As none had erst, nor any shall haue more:[986] The earle of _Salisbury_, and his sonne of _Warwicke_, Were matchlesse men[987] from _Barbary_ to _Barwicke_. 12. Through helpe of whome and fortune’s louely looke, I vndertooke to claime my lawfull right, And to abash such as against mee tooke,[988] I raysed power at all poyntes prest to fight: Of whome the chiefe, that chiefly bare mee spight, Was _Somerset_ the duke, whome to annoy I alway sought, through spite, spite to destroy.[989] 13. And maugre him, so choyse, lo, was my chaunce, Yea though the quene, that all rulde, tooke his part,[990] I twise bare rule[991] in _Normandy_ and _Fraunce_, And last lieuetenaunt in _Ireland_, where my hart Found remedy for euery kinde of smart: For through[992] the loue my doinges there did breede, I had their helpe at all times in my neede. 14. This spitefull duke, his seely king[993] and queene, With armed hoastes I thrise met in the fielde, The first vnfought through treaty made betweene: The second ioynde, wherein the king did yeelde, The duke was slaine, the queene enforst to shyelde Her selfe by flight: the third the queene did fight, Where I was slaine being ouer matcht by might.[994] 15. Before this last were other battayles three, The first the earle of _Salisbury_ led[995] alone, And[996] fought on _Bloreheath_, and got[997] victory: In the next was I and my kinsfolke[998] euery one: But seeing our souldiers stale vnto our foen, Wee warely brake our company on a night, Dissolued our hoast, and tooke our selues to flight.[999] 16.