[1] And thus (as I haue learned of them that much knew, and little cause had to lie) were these two no|ble princes, these innocent tender children, borne of most roiall bloud, brought vp in great wealth, likelie long to liue, reigne, and rule in the realme, by traito|rous tyrannie taken, depriued of their estate, short|lie shut vp in prison, and priuilie slaine and murthe|red, their bodies cast God wot where, by the cruell ambition of their vnnaturall vncle & his despiteous tormentors. Which things on euerie part well pon|dered, God neuer gaue this world a more notable ex|ample, neither in what vnsuertie standeth this world|lie weale; or what mischeefe worketh the proud enter|prise of an high heart; or finallie, what wretched end insueth such despiteous crueltie.