The Historie.
25272305A poore vnminded outlaw
sneaking home,
25282306My father gaue him welcome to the
shore:
25292307And when he heard him
sweare and vow to God,
25302308He came but to be Duke of Lanca
ster,
25312309To
sue his liuery, and beg his peace
25322310With teares of innocencie, and tearmes of zeale,
25332311My father in kinde heart and pitie mou'd,
25342312Swore him a
ssistance, and performd it too.
25352313Now when the Lords and Barons of the realme,
25362314Perceiu'd Northumberland did leane to him,
25372315The more and le
sse came in with cap and knee,
25382316Met him in Borroughs, Cities, Villages,
25392317Attended him on bridges,
stoode in lanes,
25402318Laid gifts before him, pro
fferd him their oathes,
25412319Gaue him their heires, as Pages followed him,
25422320Euen at the heeles, in golden multitudes,
25432321He pre
sently, as greatne
sse knowes it
selfe,
25442322Steps me a little higher then his vow
25452323Made to my father while his blood was poore
25462324Vpon the naked
shore at Rauen
spurgh,
25472325And now for
sooth takes on him to reforme
25482326Some certaine edi
cts, and
some
streight decrees,
25492327That lie too heauie on the Common-wealth,
25502328 Cries out vpon abu
ses,
seemes to weepe
25512329Ouer his Countrey wrongs, and by this face
25522330This
seeming brow of iu
stice did he winne
25532331The hearts of all that he did angle for:
25542332Proceeded further, cut me o
ff the heads
25552333Of all the fauourits that the ab
sent king
25562334In deputation left behind him here,
25572335When he was per
sonall in the Iri
sh warre.
25582336Blunt. Tut, I came not to heare this.
25602338In
short time after he depo
sd the king,
25612339Soone after that depriu'd him of his life,
25622340And in the necke of that ta
skt the whole
state,
25632341To make that woor
se,
su
ffred his kin
sman March
25642342(Who is if euerie owner were well plac'd
Indeed