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A02342	A myrroure for magistrates Wherein may be seen by example of other, with howe greuous plages vices are punished: and howe frayle and vnstable worldly prosperitie is founde, even of those, whom fortune seemeth most highly to fauour. Anno. 1559.; Mirrour for magistrates. Part 3.	Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563?; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.	1559 (1559)	STC 1247; ESTC S104522	67,352	165

yeres Not nature but murder abridged my yeres This acte was odious to God and to man Yet rygour to cloke in habyte of reason By crafty compas deuise they can Articles nyne of ryght haynous treason But doome after death is sure out of season For who euer sawe so straunge a presydent As execucion doen before iudgement Thus hate harboured in depth of mynde By sought occasyon burst out of newe And cruelty abused the lawe of kynde whan that the Nephewe the Uncle slewe Alas king Rycharde sore mayst thou rewe whiche by this facte preparedst the waye Of thy harde destynie to hasten the daye For blood axeth blood as guerdon dewe And vengeaunce for vengeaunce is iust rewarde O ryghteous God thy iudgementes are true For looke what measure we other 〈◊〉 The same for vs agayne is prepard● Take heed ye princes by examples past Blood wyll haue blood eyther fyrst or last WHan maister Ferrers had ended this fruytfull tragedye because no man was readye with another I hauyng perused the story whiche cam next sayd Because you shall not say my maisters but that I wyll in sumwhat do my parte I wyll vnder your correction declare the tragedy of the Lord Mowbray the chiefe wurker of the Dukes destruction who to admonysh all Counsaylers to beware of flattering princes or falsely enuying or accusyng theyr Peregalles may lament his vices in maner folowyng Hovve the Lorde Movvbray promoted by Kyng Richarde the seconde vvas by hym banyshed the Realme ▪ and dyed miserably in exyle THough sorowe and shame abash me to reherc● My lothsum lyfe and death of due deserued Yet that the paynes thereof may other perce To leaue the lyke least they be lykely serued Ah Baldwin marke I wil shew thee how I swarued Dyssemblyng Enuy and Flattery bane that ●e Of all their hostes haue shewed their power on me I blame not Fortune though she dyd her parte And true it is she can doo lytell harme She gydeth goods she hampreth not the harte A vertuous mynde is safe from euery charme Uyce onely vyce with her stoute strengthles arme Doth cause the harte to euyll to enclyne Whiche I alas doo fynde to true by myne For where by byrth I came of noble kynde The Mowbrayes heyre a famous house and olde Fortune I thanke her was to me so kynde That of my prince I had what so I wolde Yet neyther of vs was muche to other holde For I through flattery abused his wanton youth And his fonde trust augmented my vntruth He made me fyrst the earle of Notyngham And Marshall of the realme in whiche estate The P●e●s and people sayntly to me came with sore complaynt against them that of late Made offycers had brought the king in hate By makynge sale of Iustice ryght and lawe And lyuyng nought without all dreede or awe I gaue them ayde these euyls to redresse And went to London with an army strong And caused the king against his wyll oppresse By cruell death all suche ●●led hym wrong The lorde chiefe Iustice suffred these among So dyd the Stuarde of his housholde head The Chauncelour scapte for he aforehande fled These wicked men thus from the king remoued who best vs pleased succeded in theyr place For whiche both kyng and commons muche vs loued But chiefely I with all stoode high in grace The kyng ensued my rede in euery case whence selfe loue bred for glory maketh proude And pryde aye looketh alone to be allowde wherfore to thende I might alone enioy● The kinges good wyll I made his lust my lawe And where of late I laboured to destroye Suche flatryng folke as thereto stoode in awe Nowe learned I among the rest to clawe ▪ For pride is suche yf it be kindely caught As stroyeth good and styrreth vp every nought Pryde pricketh men to flatter for the pray To oppresse and pol for mayntenaunce of the same To malyce suche as matche vn●thes it may And to be briefe pride doth the harte enflame To fyer what myschief any fraude maye frame And euer at length the euyls by it wrought Confounde the wurker and bring him vnto nought Beholde in me due proofe of euerye parte For pryde fyrst forced me my prince to flatter So muche that what so euer pleased his harte Were it neuer so evyll I thought a lawfull matter W●●che caused the lordes afresh against him clatter Because he had his holdes beyonde sea ●olde And seen his souldiers of theyr wages polde Though all these yls were doen by my assent Yet suche was lucke that eche man deemed no For see the duke of Glocester for me sent With other lordes whose hartes did blede for wo To see the Realme so fast to ruyne go In faulte whereof they sayde the two dukes wer The one of Yorke the other of Lancaster On whose remove fro beyng aboute the king We all agreed and sware a solempne oth And whyle the rest prouyded for this thyng I flatter I to win the prayse of troth Wretche that I was brake fayth and promise both For I bewrayed the king theyr whole intent For whiche vnwares they all were tane and shent Thus was the warder of the common weale The Duke of Glocester gyltles made awaye With other moo more wretche I so to deale Who through vntruth their trust dyd yll betraye Yet by this meanes obteyned I my praye Of king and Dukes I founde for this suche fauour As made me Duke of Norfolke for my labour But see howe pride and envy ioyntly runne Because my prince dyd more than me preferre Syr Henry Bolenbroke the eldest sunne Of Iohn of Gaunte the Duke of Lancaster Proude I that would alone be blasyng sterre Envyed this Earle for nought saue that the shine Of his desertes dyd glyster more then mine To the ende therfore his lyght should be the lesse I slyly sought all shyftes to put it out But as the pryze that would the palme tree presse Doth cause the bowes sprede larger rounde about So spyte and enuy causeth glory sprout And aye the more the top is ouertrode The deper doth the sounde roote sprede abrode For when this Henry Erle of Harforde sawe What spoyle the kyng made of the noble blood And that without all Iustice cause or lawe To suffer him so he thought not sure nor good Wherfore to me two faced in a hood As touching this he fully brake his mynde As to his frende that should remedy fynde But I although I knewe my prince dyd yll So that my heart abhorred sore the same Yet myschief so through malyce led my wyll To bring this Earle from honour vnto shame And towarde my selfe my souerayne to enflame That I bewrayed his wurdes vnto the king Not as a rede but as a most haynous thyng Thus where my duty bounde me to have tolde My prince his fault and wylde him ●o refrayne Through flattery loe I dyd his yll vpholde whiche turnde at length both hym and me to payne Wo wo to kynges whose counsaylours do

debate The loue of you our lewde hartes doth allure To lese our s●lues by seking you vnsure Because my bro●her Edmund Mortimer Whose eldest sister was my wedded wife I meane that Edmund that was prisoner In Wales so long through Owens busy strife Because I say that after Edmundes life His rightes and titles must by law be mine For he ne had nor could encrease his line Because the right of realme crowne was ours I serched meanes to helpe him thervnto And where the Henries held it by their powers I sought a shift their tenures to vndo Which being force sith force or sleyt must do I voyde of might because their power was strong Set privy sleyte agaynst theyr open wrong But sith the deathes of most part of my k●●ne Did dash my hope throughout the fathers dayes I let it slip and thought it best beginne Whan as the s●nne shuld dred lest such assayes For force through spede sleyght spedeth through delayes And seeld doth treason time so fitly find As whan al dangers most be out of minde Wherfore while Henry of that name the fifte Prepared his army to go conquer Fraunce Lord Skrope and I thought to attempt a drifte To put him downe my brother to avaunce But wer● it gods wil my luck or his good chaunce The king wist wholy wherabout we went The night before the king to sh●pward bent Then were we strayt as traytours apprehended Our purpose spied the cause therof was hid And therfore loe a false cause we pretended Wherthrough my brother was fro daunger ryd We sayd for hier of the French kinges coyne we did Behight to kil the king and thus with shame We stayned our selves to save our frend fro blame Whan we had thus confest so foule a treason That we deserved we suffred by the lawe Se Baldwin see and note as it is reason How wicked dedes to wofull endes do drawe All force doth fayle no crafte is wurth a stra'● To attayne thinges lost and therfore let them go For might ruleth right and wil though God say no. WHan stout Richarde had stoutly sayd his mind belike ꝙ one this Rychard was but a litle man or els litle fauoured of wryters for our Cronicles speake very litle of him But seyng we be cum now to king Henries viage into Fraunce we can not lack valyant men to speake of for among so many as were led and sent by the Kyng out of thys realme thyther it can not be chosen but sum and that a great summe were ●layne among theym wherfore to speake of them all I thynke not nedefull And therfore to let passe Edwarde Duke of Yorke and the Earle of Suffolke slayne both at the battayle of Agine courte as were also many other Let vs ende the time of Henry the fyfth and cum to hys sunne Henry the syxt whose nonage brought Fraunce and Normandy out of bondage and was cause that fewe of our noble men died aged Of whom to let passe the numbre I wyll take vppon me the person of Thomas Mountague earle of Salysburye whose name was not so good at home and yet he was called the good erle as it was dreadful abrode who exclaming vpon the mutability of fortune iustly may say thus Hovv Thomas Montague the earle of Salysbury in the middes of his glory vvas chaunceably slayne vvith a piece of ordinaunce WHat fooles be we to trust vnto our strength Our wit our courage or our noble fame Which time it selfe must nedes deuour at length Though froward Fortune could not foyle the same But seing this Goddes gideth al the game Which still to chaunge doth set her onely lust Why toyle we so for thinges so hard to trust A goodly thing is surely good reporte Which noble hartes do seke by course of kinde But seen the date so doubtful and so short The wayes so rough wherby we do it find I can not chuse but prayse the princely minde That preaseth for it though we find opprest By soule defame those that deserve it best Concerning whom marke Baldwin what I say I meane the vertuous hindred of their brute Among which number reken wel I may My valiaunt father Iohn lord Montacute Who lost his life I iudge in iust pursute I say the cause and not the casual spede Is to be wayed in euery kinde of dede This rule obserued how many shall we find For vertues sake with infamy opprest How many agayn through helpe of fortune blind For yll attemptes atchiued with honour blest Succes is wurst ofttimes whan cause is best Therfore say I god send them sory happes That iudge the causes by their after clappes The ende in dede is iudge of euery thing Which is the cause or latter poynt of time The first true verdyct at the first may bryng The last is slow or slipper as the slime Oft chaunging names of innocence and crime Duke Thomas death was Iustice two yeres long And euer sence sore tiranny and wrong Wherfore I pray the Baldwin waye the cause And prayse my father as he doth deserue Because erle Henry king agaynst all lawes Endeuoured king Richard for to starve In iayle wherby the regal crowne might swarve Out of the line to which it than was due Wherby God knowes what euil might ensue My lord Iohn Holland duke of Excester Which was dere cosin to this wretched king Did mooue my father and the erle of Glocester With other lordes to ponder well the thyng Who seing the mischiefe that began to spring Did all consent this Henry to depose And to restore kyng Richard to the rose And while they did deuise a prety trappe Wherby to bring their purpose bettre about Which was in maske this Henry to haue slayne The duke of Awmerle blew their counsay●e out Yet was their purpose good there is no doubt What cause can be more wurthy for a knight Than save his king and helpe true heires to right For this with them my father was destroyed And buryed in the doung●●l of defame Thus evil chaunce theyr glory did auoyde Wheras their cause doth clayme eternal 〈◊〉 Whan dedes therfore vnluckely do frame Men ought not iudge the authours to 〈◊〉 naught For right through might is often overraught And God doth suffer that it should be so But why my wit is feble to decise Except it be to heape vp wrath and wo Upon their heades that iniuries devise The cause why mischiefes many times arise And light on them that wold mens wronges redresse Is for the rancour that they beare I gesse God hateth rigour though it furder right For sinne is sinne how euer it be vsed And therfore suffereth shame and death to light To punish vice though it be wel abused Who furdereth right is not therby excused If through the same he do sum other wrong To every vice due guerdon doth belong What preach I now I am a man of warre And that my body I dare say doth professe Of cured woundes beset with many a

wield and furnysh so weighty an enterpryse thinkyng euen so to shut my handes But he earnest and diligent in his affayres pr●●iued A●hles ●o set vnder his shoulder for shortly after dyuers learned men whose many giftes nede fewe praises consented to take vpon theym parte of the trauayle And whan certayne of theym to the numbre of seuen were throughe a gene●all ass●nt at a● apoynted time a●d place gathered together to deuyse therupon I resorted vnto them bering with me the booke of Bochas translated by Dan Lidgate for the better obseruacion of his order whiche although we lyked well yet woulde it not cu●n●●ly serue seynge that both Bochas and Lidgate were dead neyther were there any alyue that meddled with lyke arg●ment to whom the vnfortunat might make their moue To make therfore a state mete for the matter they al agreed that I shoulde vsurpe Bochas rowme and the wretched princes complayne vnto me and tooke vpon themselues euery man for his parte to be sundrye personages and in theyr behalfes to bewayle vnto me theyr greuous chaunces heuy destunes wofull misfortunes This doen we opened suche bookes of Cronicles as we had there present and maister Ferrers after he had founde where Bochas left whiche was about the ende of king Edwarde the thirdes raigne to begin the matter sayde thus I meruaile what Bochas meaneth to forget among his myserable princes such as wer of our nacion whose numbre is as great as their aduentures wunderful For to let passe all both Britons Danes and Saxons and to cum to the last Conquest what a sorte are they and sum euen in his owne tyme As for example king Rycharde the fyrste slayne with a quarlle in his chiefe prosperitie also king Iohn his brother as sum saye poysoned are not their histories rufull and of rare example But as it shoulde appeare he beynge an Italien mynded most the Roman and Italike story orels perhaps he wanted our countrey chronicles It were therfore a goodlye and a notable matter to searche dyscourse oure whole storye from the fyrst beginning of the inhabitynge of the yle But ●e●nge the printers mynde is to haue vs followe where Lidgate left we wyll leaue that great laboure to other that maye intende it and as blinde bayarde is alway boldest I wyll begin at the tyme of Rycharde the second a tyme as vnfortunate as the ruler therein And forasmuche frende Baldvvin as it shalbe your charge to note and pen orderly the whole proces I wyll so far as my memorie and iudgement serueth sumwhat further you in the truth of the story And therefore omytting the ru●●le made by Iacke Strawe and his meyny and the mourder of many notable men which therby happened for Iacke as ye knowe was but a poore prince I will begin with a notable example whiche within a whyle after ensued And althoughe he be no great prince yet sythens he had a princelye offyce I wyll take vpon me the miserable person of syr Robert Tresilian chiefe Iustice of Englande and of other which suffred with him thereby to warne all of his authorytie and profession to take heed of wrong Iudgementes mysconstruyng of lawes or wrestyng the same to serue the princes tu●nes whiche ryghtfullye brought theym to a myserable ende whiche they may iustly lament in maner ensuyng The fall of Robert Tresilian chiefe Iustice of Englande and other his felovves for misconstruyng the lavves ▪ and expounding them to serue the Princes affections IN the rufull Register of mischief and mishap Baldwin we beseche thee w t our names to begin Whom vnfrendly Fortune did trayne vnto a trap When we thought our state most stable to haue bin So lightly leese they all which all do ween to wyn Learne by vs ye Lawyers and Iudges of the lande Uncorrupt and vpryght in doome alway to stande And print it for a president to remayne for euer Enroll and recorde it in tables made of brasse Engraue it in marble that may be razed neuer Where Iudges and Iusticers may see as in a glasse What fee is for falshode and what our wages was Who for our princes pleasure corrupt with meed and awe wittyngly and wretchedly did wrest the sence of lawe A chaunge more newe or straunge seldome hath he seen Then from the benche aboue to cum downe to the bar was neuer state so turned in no tyme as I wee● As they to becum clye●tes that counsaylours erst were But such is Fortunes playe which featly can prefer The iudge that sate aboue full lowe beneth to stand At the bar a prisoner holdynge vp his hand Whiche in others cause coulde stoutly speake and plead Both in court and countrey careles of the tryall Stande m●●t lyke mummers without aduyse or read Unable to vtter a true plea of denyall Whiche haue seen the daye when that for halfe a ●yall We coulde by very arte haue made the blacke seme white And matters of most wrong to haue appered most right Beholde me vnfortunate forman of this flocke Tresilian sumtime chief Iustice of this lande By discent a gentleman no staine was in my stocke Loketon Holt and Belknap with other of my bands Whiche the lawe and iustice had wholy in our hands Under the seconde Richarde a prince of great estate To whom frowarde fortune gaue a foule checkmate In the common lawes our skill was so profounde Our credite and aucthoritie suche and so estemed That what so we concluded was taken for a grounde Allowed was for lawe what so to vs best semed Lyle death landes goodes and all by vs was demed Whereby with easye paine so great gaine we did get That euery thing was fishe that came vnto our net At sessions and at syses we bare the stroke and swey In patentes and commissions of Quorum alway chiefe● So that to whether syde so euer we did wey Were it right or wrong it past without repriefe We let hang the true man somwhiles to saue a thiefe Of golde and of syluer our handes were neuer emptye Offices termes and fees tell to vs in great plentye But what thing maye suffyse vnto the gredye man● The more he hath in holde the more he doeth desyre Happy and twise happy is he that wisely can Content him selfe with that whiche reason doth requyre And moyleth for no more then for his needfull hyre But gredynes of mynde doth neuer kepe the syse Whiche though it haue enough yet doth it not suffyse For lyke as dropsye pacientes drinke and styll be dry Whose v●staunched thyrst no lyquor can allaye And drinke they neuer so muche yet styll for more they cry So couetous catchers toyle both nyght and day Gredy and euer nedy prollyng for theyr praye O endles thyrst of golde corrupter of all lawes What mischiefe is on molde whereof thou art not cause Thou modest vs forget the fayth of our profession When sergeantes we were sworne to serue the cōmon lawe Whiche was that in no poynte we should make digression From approued