Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 45.1. Epitaphium in Henricum secundum regem mortuum & hîc sepultum.
Epitaphium in Henricum secundum regem mortuum & hîc sepultum.
REx Henricus eram, mihi plurima regna subegi,Multiplicí modo dúx comés fui,Cui satis ad votum non essent omnia terraeClimata, terra modò sufficit octo pedum.Qui legis haec, pensa discrimina mortis, & indèHumanae specula conditionis habe.Quod potes instanter operare bonum, quia mundusTransit, & incautos mors inopina rapit.5.2. Aliud.
Aliud.
TVmuli regis superscriptio breuis exorna [...],Sufficit hic tumulus, cui non suffecerat orbis,Res breuis est ampla, cui fuit ampla breuis.5.3. An epitaph vpon king Henrie the second dead and heere in|toomed.
An epitaph vpon king Henrie the second dead and heere in|toomed.
OF late king Henrie was my name,which conquerd manie a land,And diuerse dukedoms did possesse,and earledoms held in hand.And yet while all the earth could scarsemy greedie mind suffice,Eight foot within the ground now serues,wherein my carcase lies.Now thou that readest this, note wellmy force with force of death,And let that serue to shew the stateof all that yeeldeth breath.Doo good then here, foreslowe no time,cast off all worldlie cares,For brittle world full soone dooth faile,and death dooth strike vnwares.5.4. An other.
An other.
SMall epitaph now serues, to deckethis toome of statelie king:And he who whilome thought whole earthcould scarse his mind content,In little roome hath roome at large,that serues now life is spent.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶ Here may be thought that the reigne of the Nor|mans and French men ouer the realme of England tooke end, a hundred twentie two yeares after the comming in of the Conquerour; for those that reig|ned after this Henrie the second, we may rightlie estéeme to be Englishmen, bicause they were borne in England, and vsed the English toong, customes, and maners, according to the nature and qualitie of the countrie.
Thus farre the succession and regiment of the Frenchmen ouer this Iland; namelie, Stephan of Bul|longne and Henrie the second.Richard the first, second sonne to Henrie the second.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Anno Reg. 1._RIchard the first of that name, and second sonne of Henrie the second, began his reigne ouer England the sixt day of Iulie, in the yere of our Lord 1189. in the seauen and thir|teeth yeare of the emperour Frederike the first, in the e|leuenth yere of the reigne of Philip the second king of France, Wil. Paruus. and king William surnamed the Lion as yet liuing in the gouernement of Scotland.