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Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 2, Part 1

Note 186 — How the two Rogers, surnamed Mortimers, for their sundry vices ended their liues vnfortunately, the one An. 1329, the other, 1387.[175]

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Whence pryde out sprang, as doth appeare by manye, Whom soden hap, aduaunceth in excesse, Among thousandes, scarse shal you fynde anye, Which in high wealth that humor can suppresse, As in this earle playne proofe did wel expresse: For whereas hee too loftye was before, His new degree hath made him now much more. 1578.

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