I being slaine, those that for me did fight, Turning their backes, away forthwith did flie, In field my slaughtered bodie in despight, Drag’d from the place where it did bleeding lie, Was naked made to euery vassals eye, Despoil’d of all those kingly robes I wore: Thus they to Leicester my bodie bore. 94. Behind a slaue vpon a halting iade All naked as I was, hog-like I lay: And in that sort with blood and dust array’d, To Leicester they bore me, whence that day To field I came in pompe and rich aray: Where to the graue my bodie they commend: Thus had my bloodie life a bloodie end. 95. Th’ambitious prince, whose hand vniustly gripes Another’s right to make himselfe a king, Suffers the smart of many furies stripes: Th’internall worme his conscience still doth sting, His soule t’a fearefull iudgement death doth bring: Of which let my vsurped royaltie, Remaine a Mirrour in this historie. 96. My storie told, I may no longer stay, My grieued ghost doth smell the morning’s aire: The night on sable wings flies fast away, The houres in east expecting daies repaire, On cloudie hill sets vp her siluer chaire? My guiltie ghost her light may not behold, Adew, remember well what I haue told. “Our night is at an end,” quoth Memorie, “With which we heere will end our historie: After this tyrant’s fall, that dismall night, Which did obscure this kingdome’s faire day-light, Did take an end: heere some auspitious star Twixt _Yorke_ and _Lancaster_ did end the iar, Appointing _Richmond_ that Lancastrian knight, T’inoculate his _Red Rose_ with the _White_: Heere therefore with this blissefull vnitie, We will shut vp our tragicke historie, And thou, whose pen we do appoint to write Those Mirrours past, which thou hast heard this night; Awake from sleepe, and let thy willing pen Set forth this dreame vnto the view of men.” This said, with fame she vanisht from my sight, This was the vision of a winter’s night. FINIS. END OF PART IV. [Illustration: [THE Mirrour for Magistrates, AS] ENGLANDS ELIZA: or The Victoriovs and Trivmphant Reigne _of that Virgin Empresse of_ sacred memorie, _ELIZABETH_, Queene of England, France and Ireland, &c. PART V. By RICHARD NICCOLS, Oxon. Mag. Hall. From the edition imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1610. ]