14661301My Lord Northumberland wil soone be coold.

14671302King O God that one might reade the booke of fate,

14681303And see the reuolution of the times,

14691304Make mountaines leuell, and the continent

14701305Weary of solide firmenesse melt it selfe

14711306Into the sea, and other times to see,

14721307The beachie girdle of the ocean,

14731308Too wide for Neptunes hips, how chances mockes,

14741309And changes fill the cup of alteration,

14751310With diuers liquors! O if this were seene,

1475.11311The happiest youth viewing his progresse through,

1475.21312What perills past, what crosses to ensue?

1475.31313Would shut the booke and sit him downe and die:

1314Tis not ten yeeres gone,

14761315Since Richard and Northumberland great friends,

14771316Did feast togither, and in two yeare after,

14781317Were they at warres: it is but eight yeares since,

14791318This Percie was the man neerest my soule,

14801319Who like a brother toyld in my affaires;

14811320And laied his loue and life vnder my foote,

14821321Yea for my sake, euen to the eyes of Richard,

14831322Gaue him defyance: but which of you was by?

14841323You cousen Neuel, (as I may remember)

14851324When Richard with his eye-brimme full of teares,

14861325Then checkt and rated by Northumberland,

14871326Did speake these wordes now proou'd a prophecie:

14881327Northumberland, thou ladder by the which

14891328My cousen Bolingbrooke ascends my throne,

14901329(Though then (God knowes) I had no such intent,

14911330But that necessitie so bowed the state,

14921331That I and greatnesse were compeld to kisse.)

14931332The time shall come, thus did he follow it,

14941333The time wil come, that foule sin gathering head,

14951334Shall breake into corruption: so went on,

14961335Fortelling this same times condition,