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.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 4 Simon de Reading exe|cuted.On the same daie was Simon de Reading drawne and hanged on the same gallowes, but ten foot lower than the other. This Reading being marshall of the kings house, had vsed the queene very vncourteouslie, giuing hir manie reprochfull words, which now were remembred, and therefore may serue for an example, how dangerous a thing it is to speake euill of the higher powers. Caxton. The common fame went, that after this Hugh Spenser the sonne was taken, he would receiue no sustenance, wherefore he was the sooner put to death, or else had he beene conueied to London, there to haue suffered.The earle of Arundell ta|ken. Iohn earle of Arundell was taken on S. Hughs day, in the parts about Shrewes|burie, and the same day seuennight before the execu|tion of the earle of Glocester, Hugh Spenser the yoonger, as well the said earle, who had béene euer a great freend to both the Spensers, Th. Walsing. Execution. as also Iohn Da|niell, and Thomas de Milcheldeure were put to death at Hereford, by procurement of the lord Mortimer of Wigmore,The fauour in which the lord Morti|mer was with the quéene. that hated them extreamelie, by reason whereof they were not like to spéed much better, for what he willed the same was doone, and without him the queene in all these matters did nothing.