Was this a chaunce? no sure, God’s iust awarde, Wherein due[1066] iustice playnly doth appeare: An headlesse arrow payde mee my rewarde:[1067] For heading _Richard_ lying on his[1068] bere, And as I would his childe in no wise heare, So sodayne death bereft my tongue the power To aske for pardon at my dying[1069] hower. 10. Wherefore, good _Baldwine_, warne the[1070] bloudy sort, To leaue theyr wrath, theyr[1071] rigour to refrayne: Tell cruell judges horror is the port Through which they sayle to shame[1072] and sodayn payne:[1073] Hell haleth[1074] tyrauntes downe to death amayne: Was neuer yet, nor shal be cruell deede, Left vnrewarded with as[1075] cruell meede. [Whan this tragedy was ended: “O Lord,” sayd[1076] another, “how horrible a thing is diuision in a realme, to how many mischiefes is it the mother, what vice is not therby kindled, what vertue left vnquenched? for what was the cause of the duke of _Yorke’s_ death, and of the cruelty of this _Clyfford_, saue[1077] the variaunce betwene king _Henry_ and the house of _Yorke_? which at length, besides millions of the commons, brought to destruction all the[1078] nobility. For _Edward_ the duke’s eldest son immediately after his[1079] father was slayn, through help of the _Neuills_, gaue the king a battayle, whereat, besides this _Clyfford_, and xxxvi thousand other souldiers, were slain theyr captaynes, the earles[1080] of _Northumberland_ and _Westmerland_, with the lordes _Dacres_ and _Welles_: the[1081] winning of which fielde brought _Edward_ to the crowne, and the losse draue king _Henry_ and his wife into _Scotland_. But as few raignes begin without bloud, so king _Edward_ to keepe order,[1082] caused _Thomas Courtney_ earle of _Deuonshyre_, and _Iohn Veer_ earle of _Oxeforde_, and _Aubrey Veer_ eldest sonne to the sayd earle, with diuers[1083] other his enemies,[1084] to bee attaynted and put to death. And shortly after he[1085] did execution vpon the duke of _Somerset_, and the lordes _Hungerford_ and _Rosse_, whom he toke prisoners at _Exham_ fielde. For thither they came with[1086] king _Henry_ out of _Scotland_, with an army of _Scottes_, and fought a battayle, which was lost, and the most[1087] part of them slayn.[1088] And because these are all noble men, I will leaue them to _Baldwine’s_ discretion. But seyng the earle of _Worcester_ was the chiefe instrument whom king _Edward_ vsed as well in these men’s matters as in like bloudy affayres, because he should not be forgotten, yee shall here what I haue noted concerning his tragedy.”[1089]]