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Modernized excerpts of How the Lord Hastings was Betrayed, by Trusting Too Much to his Evil Counselor Catesby, and Villainously Murdered in the Tower of London by Richard Duke of Gloucester, the 13 June. Anno 1483. prepared from Mirror for Magistrates (Dolman).

The hilly heavens, and valleyValleyed. earth below Yet ring his fame, whose deeds so great did grow; Edward the fourth ye know, unnamed I mean, Whose noble nature to me so did lean That I his staff was, I his only joy. And even what PandarPandarus of Lycia, who acts at the go-between for the lovers Troilus and Cressida in Chaucer and Shakespeare. Hastings notes that he was the go-between for Edward and his lovers. was to him of Troy, Which moved him first to create me chamberlain, To seem his sweets, to my most sour pain. Wherein, too justly praised for secretness (For now my guilt with shirking I confess) To him too true, too untrue to the queen, Such hate I won, as lasted long between Our families. Shore’s wife was my nice cheat. The holy whore, and ekeAlso, as well as (OED eke, n.1 4). the wily peat:Young woman, sweetheart (OED peat, n.2 1.a); conceited, arrogant woman (OED peat, n.2 2.a). I fed his lust with lovely pieces so, That God’s sharp wrath I purchased my just woe. See here of nobles knew the divers source? Some virtue raiseth, some climb by sluttish sorts: The first, though only of themselves begun, Yet circle-wise into themselves do run: Within their fame their force united so, Both endless is, and stronger ’gainst their foe: For, when endeth it that never hath begun? Or by what force may circled knot be undone? The other, as by wicked means they grew, And reigned by flattery, or violence. So some rue: First tumbling step from honors old, is vice, Which once descend, some linger, none arise To former type: but they catch virtue’s spray, Which mounteth them that climb by lawful way. Beware to rise by serving princely lust: Surely to stand, one mean is rising just. While thus he spake, I held within mine arm Shore’s wife, the tender piece, to keep me warm. Fie on adultery, fie on lecherous lust! Mark in me, ye nobles all: God’s judgment’s just. A Pandar, murderer, and adulterer thus, Only such death I die, as I neDid not. blush: Now, lest my dame might fear appall my heart, With eager mood up in my bed I start. Frowning he enters, with so changed cheer, As for mild May had chopped foul January: And lowering on me with the goggle eye, The whetted tusk, and furrowed forehead high, His crooked shoulder bristle-like set up, With frothy jaws, whose foam he chewed and supped, With angry looks that flamed as the fires Thus ’gan at histWhen he attracted attention. to grunt the grimmest sire. What merit they, whom me, the kingdom’s stayStrength, comfort (OED stay, n.2 1.c). Contrived have council traitorously to slay? Abashed, all sat: I thought I might be bold, For conscience, clearness, and acquaintance old: Their hireReward, payment. is plain, quoth I, be death the least To whoso seeketh your grace so to molest: Withouten stay:Not pausing. The queen and the whore Shore’s wife, By witchcraft, quoth he, seek to waste my life. Lo, here the withered and bewitched arm, That thus is spent by those two sorceress’ charm: And bared his arm and showed his swinish skin. Such cloaks they use that seek to cloud their sin, But out, alas, it serveth not for the rain. To all the house, the color was too plain: Nature had given him many a maimed mark, And it amongs to note her monstrous wark.Pain, ache (OED wark, n.1). My doubtful heart distracted this reply. For th’one I cared not: th’other nippedRebuked, reproved (OED nip, v.1 2). so nigh That whyst I could not, but forthwith break forth: If so it be, of death they are doubtless worth? If, traitor? quoth he, playst thou with ifs and ands? I’ll on thy body show it with these hands! And therewithal he mightily bounced the board:Rapped upon the table. In rushed his bill-men, one himself bestirred. Laying at lord Stanley, whose brain he had surely cleft, Had he not down beneath the table crept: But Ely, York, and I were taken straight, Imprisoned they, I should no longer wait, But charged was to shrive me, and shift with haste. My lord must dine, and now midday was past: The boar’s first dish, not the boar’s head should be : But Hastings’ head, the boarish beast would see. Why stay I his dinner? unto the chapel joineth A greenish hill, that body and soul oft twineth: There on a block my head was stricken off, As Baptiste’sSt. John the Baptist, beheaded at the command of Herod Antipas in c.28-36CE. The presentation of John’s head on a platter is a common theme in art. head, for Herod bloody knows. Thus lived I, Baldwin, thus died I, thus I fell, This is the sum, which all at large to tell Would volumes fill: whence yet these lessons note Ye noble lords, to learn and ken by rote.