Note 808 — Howe the Lord Irenglas cosen to king Cassibellane was slayne by the Lord Elimine cosen to Androgeus Earle of London, about the yeere before Christ, 51.
Reading edition
The edition of 1575 finishes with the life of Lord Irenglas, which Higgins calls the FIRST PART in his concluding lines of
The Author.
With that (me thought) he vanisht quite away: And I was come to end my worke at last: Not minding longer on the which to staye, My penne did trudge to wryte these verses fast. I trust sith once, they haue the Printer past That went before: these fragmentes come behinde, Shall of the Readers, likewyse fauour finde. So of my first part here I make an ende, The Seconde parte which I haue now to fyle Doth call me hence, from these to those to wende: In which if God send grace to guyde my style, I shall (I trust) and that in shorter whyle, Againe retourne, to Printer’s presse with those: Which shal likewise, their fight and falles disclose. Till then farewell a thousand times to thee, Which takst in hand this booke to shun the ill, That was the fall of these describde by mee, And haste to mende their faultes a firme good will, I wishe thy health, increase of vertu still, Adieu, farewell, I haue but this to say, God send vs both his heauenly grace for aye. I. Higgins.