William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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Satires by Juvenal is in Juvenal.
curandum in primis ne magna iniuria fiat
fortibus et miseris. tollas licet omne quod usquam est
auri atque argenti, scutum gladiumque relinques.
[et iaculum et galeam; spoliatis arma supersunt.]
Above all, care must be taken not to inflict great injury on the brave and the wretched.
You may take away all that exists of gold and silver, leaving behind the shield and sword.
[And the javelin and helmet; for the disarmed, weapons remain.]
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cum plenus fluctu medius foret alveus et iam,
alternum puppis latus evertentibus undis,
arbori incertae, nullam prudentia cani
rectoris cum ferret opem, decidere iactu
coepit cum ventis, imitatus castora, qui se
eunuchum ipse facit cupiens evadere damno
testiculi; adeo medicatum intellegit inguen.
When the riverbed was full in the midst of the waves and now, with the waves overturning the sides of the boat alternately, with an uncertain tree [mast]—no wisdom guiding the helmsman when he brought help—it began to fall with the winds, imitating the beaver, which makes itself a eunuch wishing to escape the harm of the testicles; so much does it understand the medicine applied to the groin."
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