Note 441 — How King Richard the second was for his euill gouernaunce deposed from his seate, in the yeare 1399, and murdered in prison[384] the yeare following.

For whan my trayterous stuard thus was goen, My seruantes shranke away on euery syde, That caught I was, and caryed to my foen: Who for theyr prince a pryson dyd provyde, And therin kept me tyll duke Henrye’s pryde Dyd cause me yelde hym vp my crowne and throne: Which shortely made my frendly foes to grone, For Henry seyng in me theyr falshode tryed, Abhorde them all, and would be rulde by none; For which they sought to stoppe hym strayt a tyde. 1559, 63.