Compare 1577 edition: 1 The king was deliuered to the earle of Leicester, who conueied him by Monmouth and Leadburie,The king is brought to Killingworth. to Killingworth castle, where he remained the whole winter. The earle of Glocester, the lord chancellor, and Simon de Reading, were brought to Hereford, and there presented to the queene, where on the foure & twentith of Nouember, the said earle was drawne and hanged on a paire of gallowes of fiftie foot in heigth. Then was his head striken off,Hugh Spen|ser the yonger executed. his bowels taken out of his bodie and burnt, and his bodie diui|ded in quarters. His head was sent to London, and set vpon the bridge with other, & his quarters were sent to foure seuerall parts of the realme, and there pight vpon poles, to be séene of the people. He was drawne in his owne cote armour, about the which there were letters embrodered plaine to be read con|teining a parcell of the 52 psalme, as followeth.
1 QVid gloriaris in malitia potens?
2 Iniquitatem tota die, iniustitiam cogitauit lingua tua, sicut nouacula acuta fecisti dolum,
3 Dilexisti malitiam super bonitatem, iniustiti|am magis quàm loqui iustitiam,
4 Dilexisti omnia verba demersionis lingua do|losa,
5 Propterea Deus destruat te in finem, euellat te & emigrare te faciat de tabernaculo tuo, & ra|dicem EEBO page image 340 tuam de terra viuentium,
6 Videbunt iusti & timebunt, & super eum ride|bunt, & dicent,
7 Ecce homo qui non posuit Deum adiutorem su|um, sed sperauit in multitudine diuitiarum sua|rum, & praeualuit in vanitate sua.
1 WHy boastest thou that thou canst do mischiefe?
2 Thy toong imagineth wickednesse, & with lies thou cuttest like a sharpe rasor,
3 Thou hast loued vngratiousnesse more than goodnesse, and to talke of lies more than righteousnesse,
4 Thou hast loued to speake all words that may doo hurt ô thou false toong,
5 Therefore shall God destroie thee for euer, he shall take thee, and plucke thee out of thy dwelling, and roote thee out of the land of the liuing,
6 The righteous also shall see this, and feare, and shall laugh him to scorne,
7 Lo this is the man that tooke not God for his strength, but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches, & strengthned himselfe in his wickednesse.