[1] For first, to begin with the ministers, Miles For|rest, at S. Martins péecemeale rotted awaie.The iust iudgement of God seuerelie reuenging the murther of the innocent prin|ces vpon the malefactors. Digh|ton in déed yet walketh on aliue in good possibilitie to be hanged yer he die. But sir Iames Tirrell died at the Tower hill beheaded for treason. King Richard himselfe, as ye shall hereafter heare, slaine in the field, hacked and hewed of his enimies hands, ha|ried on horsse-backe dead, his haire in despite torne and tugged like a curre dog; and the mischéefe that he tooke, within lesse than three yeares of the mischeefe that he did: and yet all (in the meane time) spent in much paine & trouble outward, much feare, anguish and sorow within. For I haue heard by credible re|port of such as were secret with his chamberleine, that after this abhominable déed doone, he neuer had a quiet mind. [Than the which there can be no greater torment. For a giltie conscience inwardlie accusing and bearing witnesse against an offendor, is such a plague and punishment, as hell it selfe (with all the féends therein) can not affoord one of greater horror & affliction; the poet implieng no lesse in this tristichon:

Poena autem vehemens, ac multo saeuior illis,

Quas & Caeditius grauis inuenit & Radamanthus,Pers. sat. 3.

Nocte diéque suum gestare in pectore testem.