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Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 2, Part 1

Note 1011 — 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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She thereof warned, prepared a strong power, And ere my men were altogether redye, To Sandale came, where, in a dismal houre, I like a beast, so rash was and so heddy To trie fortune which alwaies is vnsteddy, With thousands fiue of souldiers to assayle The double number in campe to their auayle. 1578.

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