[1] [2] [3] These things doone, the king rose from his place, and with a cheerefull and right courteous counte|nance regarding the people, went to White-hall, where the same day he held a great feast.King Henrie ye fourth pro|clamed. In the after n [...]one were proclamations made in the accustomed places of the citie, in the name of king Henrie the fourth. On the morrow following, being wednesdaie and first of October, the procurators aboue named repaired to the tower of London, and there signified vnto king Richard the admission of king Henrie. And the aforesaid iustice William Thirning, in name of the other, and for all the states of the land, renounced vnto the said Richard late king, all ho|mage and fealtie vnto him before time due, in ma|ner and forme as apperteined. Which renuntiation to the deposed king, was a redoubling of his greefe in so much as thereby it came to his mind, how in for|mer times he was acknowledged & taken for their liege lord and souereigne, who now (whether in con|tempt or in malice, God knoweth) to his face for|sware him to be their king. So that in his heuin [...]s he might verie well haue said with a gréeued plaintife,

Heu quantae sortes miseris mortalibus instant!
Ah chari quoties obliuia nominis opto!T. Wats. Amin [...] ta [...] querela 5.
O qui me fluctus, quis me telluris hiatu [...]
Pertaesum tetricae vitae deglutiat ore
Chasmatico?