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Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 2, Part 1

Note 982 — Howe Richarde Plantagenet Duke of Yorke was slayn through his ouer rash boldnes, and his sonne the Earle of Rutland for his lacke of valiaunce, An. Dom. 1460.[950]

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Thus was the name of Mortimer extinct, Whose right and title descended vnto me, Being forst to lyue within a precinct, For feare I would to other countries flee, And so beeing at myne owne libertee, Might haplye moue sedicion or strife, For guilty hartes can leade no quiet lyfe. 1578.

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