 | The Weakest goeth to the VVall |  |
Prologue.
The Duke of Aniou fatally inclindAgainst the familie of Bullen, leades
A mightie Armie into Burgundie,
Where Philip younger brother of that house
Was Duke: whose power vnequall with his foes,
Receiu'd the foile, and being slaine himselfe,
The souldiers afterward pursue his wife:
She flying from the Citie, tooke with her,
Her pretie Nephew, Lodwicks tender sonne,
Brought vp and fostred by his vncle Philip,
And in her flight to scape the bloudie hands
Of those that follow'd, leapes into a Riuer,
And there vntimely perisht in the floud.
The litle Fredericke left vpon the shore,
The tardie Duke of Brabant all too late,
Espies, and ignorant of whence he was
Maintaines and keepes him, till he came to age:
Of him, his fortune, and his fathers woes,
The Scæne ensuing, further shall disclose.
Exit.
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