"Fill high the sparkling bowl, <note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom">Richard the Second, (as we are told by Archbishop Scroop and the confederate Lords in their manifesto, by Thomas of Walsingham, and all the older Writers)[,] was starved to death [in 1400]. The story of his assassination by Sir Piers of Exon, is of much later date. </note>