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"Then Edward remaining in prison, as first in the castel of Kenelworth, and after in the castel of Barkle, took greate repentaunce of hys former life, and made a lamentable complainte for that he had so grevously offended God; whereof a part I have set out, but not all, lest it shoulde bee tedious to the readers or hearers.

"Damnum mihi contulit tempore brumali
Fortuna satis aspera vehementis mali.
Nullus est tam sapiens, mitis, aut formosus,
Tam prudens virtutibus ceterisque famosus,
Quin stultus reputabitur, et satis despectus,
Si fortuna prosperos avertat effectus."

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"These, wyth manye other after the same makynge," adds the chronicler, "I have seene, whyche are reported to bee of hys owne makynge, in the tyme of hys emprysonment."

Through the liberal kindness of Edmund Lodge, esq. Lancaster herald, I have had an opportunity of inspecting the Latin poem referred to by bishop Tanner, among the manuscripts in the college of arms, and I find it to be a copy of the same production which Fabian has cited; and which, as Mr. Barrington remarks, if it do not prove the monarch a poet, yet places his scholarship out of doubt. The specimen, however, selected by Fabian, promises to be more creditable to the writer, and satisfactory to the reader, than the entire monkish original would prove,

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which extends to 112 lines. Mr. Andrews, in his entertaining History, has offered the following imitation of the preceding extract:

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Mr. Douce has pointed out the following article, apparently by this prince, in a manuscript that had belonged to sir Henry Spelman, and was sold with the rest of his collection in 1709.

"De la Roi Edward le Fiz Roi Edward, le Chanson qe il fist mesmes."]

7 Hist. of G. B. vol. i. p. 346)

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