146 THE RHYMED CHRONICLE OF JOHN HARESTAFFE. 



To treate whereof my labour shall be spar'd, 



Because elswhere I have the same declar'd. 



At last for finall end of all their stryfe, 



Edward y e heire adopted tooke to wyfe 



This heire at comon lawe (who Margaret hight) 



Wherby both parties might obtaine their right. 



And if without offence one may compare 



Small thinges with great, methinks this couple are 



A little modell both oth match and warre 



Twixt those great Houses York and Lancaster. 



Upon this match his mother did consent 



With half these landes to hold herself content, 



And where her husband gave her all for lyfe, 



She yeelds the moytie to her son and's wyfe : 



So k) nd was she and lovinge to her sonne, 



Fewe mothers have done so as she hath done : 



A right good mother to her sonne men thought her, 



I wish the lyke had hapned to that daughter : 



Whose mother unto her was not so kynd, 



Yet that she was a Lady I doe fynd : 



For Justice Townshend then her second match 



(Who was a Judge ith' Marches) hapt to catch 



A Knighthood mongst the rest, when Knyghts were ryfe* 



A joyfull tyme it was to many a wyfe, 



As well as his, whom gladly I would praise, 



If truth would give me leave, therby to please 



Her daughter, who unwillynge is to see 



Her mothers wronges, to her great injurie : 



Which I will not recyte, though well I could, 



Who knowe theim to be great and manifolde : 



Yet one of theim I needs must here repeate, 



(For it concernes y e poynt wherof I treate) 



This mother for her lyfe holdes in her handes, 



The whole Revennewes of her daughters lands : 



* In the course of the first three months of the reign of James I. no less than 

 seven hundred individuals were knighted. 



