This boy and I, in _Ireland_ did vs saue, Mine eldest sonne, with _Warwicke_ and his father, To _Calais_ got, whence, by the reade I gaue, They came agayne to _London_, and did gather An other hoast whereof I spake not[1000] rather: And met our foes, slewe many a lord and knight, And tooke the king, and draue the queene to flight. 17. This done I came[1001] to _England_ all in haste, To make a[1002] claime vnto the realme and crowne: And in the house while parliament did last, I in the kinge’s seat boldly[1003] sate mee downe, And claymed it, whereat[1004] the lordes did frowne, But what for that? I did so well proceede, That all at last confest it mine indeede.[1005] 18. But sith the king had raigned now so long,[1006] They would hee should continue till hee dyed, And to the end, that than none did mee wrong,[1007] Protector and heyre apparant they mee[1008] cryed: But sith the queene and others this denyed, I sped mee towardes the north, where then shee lay, In minde by force to cause her to obay.[1009] 19. Whereof shee warnd preparde a mighty powre, And ere that mine were altogether ready, Came swift to _Sandale_[1010] and besieged my bowre: Where like a beast I was so rash and heady, That out I would, there could be no remedy, With scant fiue thousand souldiers, to assayle Fowre times so many, encampt to most auayle.[1011] 20. And so was slaine at first: and while my childe Scarse twelue yeare old, sought secretly to parte, That cruell _Clifford_, lord, nay lorell wylde, While the infant[1012] wept, and prayed him rue his smart, Knowing what hee was, with dagger cloue his heart:[1013] This done, he came to th’camp where I lay dead, Despoylde my corps and cut away my head. 21. And when he had put a paper crowne thereon, As a gawring stocke he sent it to the queene:[1014] And shee for spite commaunded it anon To be had to _Yorke_: where that it mought[1015] bee seene, They placed it where other traytors beene: This mischiefe fortune did mee after death: Such was my life, and such my losse of breath.[1016] 22. Wherefore see, _Baldwine_, that thou set it forth, To th’end the fraude of fortune may bee knowen, That eke all princes well[1017] may way the worth Of thinges, for which the seedes[1018] of warre be sowen: No state so sure but soone is ouerthrowen:[1019] No worldly good can counterpeyze the prise Of halfe the paynes that may thereof arise. 23.