instead of his former person of a prince, all men may think how he was expofed to the derifion not only of the courtiers, but also of the common people, who flocked about him as he went along, that one might know afar off where the owl was, by the flight of birds; fome mocking, fome wondering, fome curfing, fome prying and picking matter out of his countenance and gefture to talk of. So that the falfe honour and respects which he had fo long enjoyed was plentifully repaid in fcorn and contempt. For he was conveyed leisurely on horfeback, but not in. any ignominious fashion, through Cheapfide and Cornhill, to the Tower, and from thence back again into Westminster, with the churme [= confused murmuring noise] of a thousand taunts and reproaches. (Ibid.)

Still Later-Disgraced [1498].

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the palace-court at Westminster, he was feared and let in the ftocks for the wicie GAT. And the next day arter, the Ice was done by him at the Crois in Cheapside, and in both places

he read his confeffion, of which we made mention before; and was from Cheapfide conveyed and laid up in the Tower. (Ibid.)

Final Scene-13 Nov., 1499.

It was ordained that this winding-ivy of a Plantagenet fhould kill the true tree itself. For, Perkin, after he had been a while in the Tower, began to infinuate himself into the favour of his keepers.

Hereupon Perkin (that had offended against grace now the third time) was at the laft proceeded with, and by commiffioners of Oyer and Determiner, arraigned at Westminster, upon divers treafons committed and perpetrated after his coming on land within this kingdom (for fo the judges advised, for that he was a foreigner) and condemned; and a few days after executed at Tyburn; where he did again openly read his confeffion, and take it upon his death to be true. This was the end of this little cockatrice of a king, that was able to destroy those that did not espy him first.

particulars being dispersed do beft agree with difperfed directions. And, laftly, aphorifms, representing knowledge broken, do invite men to inquire further: whereas methods, carrying the show of a total, do fecure men as if they were at fartheft. (Advancement of Learning.)

NOTABLE SENTENCES. Out of Jome of the Writings of the Lord Bacon.

1. It is a ftrange defire which men have to feek power and lofe liberty.

2. Round dealing is the honour of man's nature; and a mixture of falfehood is like alloy in gold and filver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.

3. Death openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

4. Schifm in the spiritual body of the church is a greater fcandal than a corruption of manners: as, in the natural wound or folution of continuity

Te than a corrupt humour.