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Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 2, Part 1

Note 1013 — 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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whyle my pore infant Scarse twelue yere olde, sought way himselfe to saue, That cruel Clifford, that fel bloudy tyrant, While the pore chyld with tears did mercy craue, With dagger sharp his hart a sunder claue. 1578.

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