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152 the mind, that it neither were need, and also should be ieopardous, the king to come vp strong.' Holinshed, iii. 714. More, 14/6.

Ludlow. 'As soone as the king was departed, the noble prince his sonne drew toward London; which at the time of his decease kept his houshold at Ludlow in Wales. ' Holinshed, iii. 714. More, 12/6.

queen's proud kindred. 'To the gouernance and ordering of this yoong prince, at his sending thither, was there appointed sir Anthonie Wooduile, lord Riuers, and brother vnto the queene; a right honourable man, as valiant of hand as politike in counsell, Adioined were vnto him other of the same partie; and in effect euerie one as he was neerest of kin vnto the queene, so was he planted next about the prince. That drift by the queene now vnwiselie deuised, whereby hir bloud might of youth be rooted into the princes fauour, the duke of Glocester turned vnto their destruction; and vpon that ground set the foundation of all his vnhappie building.' Holinshed, iii. 714. More, 12/6.

seldom comes the better. A proverbial saying. ' began there, here and there abouts, some maner of muttering among the people, as though all should not long be well, though they neither wist what they feared, nor wherefore: were it, that, before such great things, mens hearts of a secret instinct of nature misgiue them; as the sea without wind swelleth of himselfe sometime before a tempest. ' Holinshed, iii. 721. More, 43/19.

Woe to that land that's govern'd by a child. Cf. Ecclesiastes, x, 16: 'Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child.'

nine months. Henry VI was proclaimed king at Paris in October, 1422, when he was about