Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 2, Part 1

Note 486 — How Owen Glendour seduced by false prophesies, tooke vpon him to bee Prince of Wales, and was by Henry Prince[479] of England chased[480] to the mountaynes, where hee miserably died for lack of foode.[481] Anno 1401.[482]

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My body and fame she hathe made leane and slender, For I, poor wretch, am sterved Owen Glendour. Fol. 1559, 63. Oh false fortune, fortune, vengeaunce on thee, I crye: Which offering a sop of sweet receyt, Haste made me byte the hooke in steede of bayt. 1578.

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