Fortune in midst of this their wicked strife, With pleasing looke so smil’d on my intent, That by the sudden losse of _Edward’s_ life, My kingly brother, she did seeme t’assent To grant me good successe in the euent: The king late sick, leaues heere the peeres at oddes, And flies the place of mortall men’s abodes. 27. His corps scarce couered with a clod of clay, His kingly ghost of heauie newes to tell: Earle _Riuers_, _Vaughan_, and lord _Richard Grey_, The kindred of the queene I did compell To follow him, amongst the dead to dwell, Vnhappie _Hastings_, _Buckingham_ and I At Pomfret castle caused them to die. 28. They dead, protector by consent of peeres To hold the sterne in state I chosen am: My nephew yet being in his yongest yeares, Which once attain’d by helpe of _Buckingham_, To higher things ambitiously I aime, Who for my promise of promotion, gaue His minde to mine, in each thing I could craue. 29. _Hastings_, whose loyaltie stood in my way, Vpon his fall to build my future power, As he at counsell sate vpon a day With other lordings in the fatall Tower, By my deceit there met his liue’s last houre: Where he, fond lord, did think himselfe most sure, His best deem’d friends swift death did him procure. 30. The way made plaine by plucking others downe, That might withstand in such a generall ill, With some pretence of title to the crowne, To win the giddie people to our will, A man whose tongue could honie drops distill, One doctor _Shaw_, then deem’d a great diuine, To vndertake this taske we did assigne. 31. He in a sermon fitting mine intent, Did seeke to proue my brother’s progenie Vnlawfull issue: and with my consent Chargeth my mother with adulterie, Of _Edward’s_ and lord _Clarence_ bastardie, Auouching me to be _Yorke’s_ true borne child, On whom our house their hopes might only build. 32. To this his sermon, as it was decreed, Rushing amongst the people in I came, Where he most impudent, in hope to breed Affection in the audience did not shame, On me with loud applauses to exclame: For flying from his text when I came in, In praise of me, thus did the wretch begin. 33. “This is,” quoth he, “that very noble duke, The speciall paterne of true chiualrie, Who both in fauour and in princely looke, As well as in the mind’s true qualitie, Doth represent his father’s physnomie:” Thus did he seeke the people’s hearts t’incline, But purchas’d nought but his disgrace and mine. 34.