[1] On the fiue and twentith day of the said moneth, the duke of Clarence accompanied with the earles of Warwike and Shrewesburie, the lord Strange, and other lords and gentlemen, some for feare, and some for loue, and some onelie to gaze at the waue|ring world, went to the Tower, and from thense brought king Henrie apparelled in a long gowne of blew veluet, through London to the church of saint Paule, the people on euerie side the streets reioising and crieng; God saue the king: as though ech thing had succéeded as they would haue had it: and when he had offered (as kings vse to doo) he was conueied to the bishops palace, where he kept his houshold like a king. [Thus was the principalitie posted ouer som|times to Henrie, sometimes to Edward; according to the swaie of the partie preuailing: ambition and disdaine still casting fagots on the fire, whereby the heat of hatred gathered the greater force to the con|sumption of the péeres and the destruction of the peo|ple. In the meane time, neither part could securelie possesse the regalitie, when they obteined it, which highmindednesse was in the end the ouerthrow of both principals and accessaries, according to the na|ture thereof noted in this distichon by the poet:

Fastus habet lites, offensis fastus abundat,

Fastus ad interitum praecipitare solet.]