88. But as they clyme whom princes doe aduaunce
Eache tongue will trip, and envyes eye will glaunce.
89. fo. 93.To be aduanced from a base estate
By virtue is indeede a happy thing;
But who by fortune clymes will all men hate,
Unles his lyfe unlookt for fruit doe bring
Wherewith to cure the wound of envies sting,
But seldome-tymes is found soe wise a man
That gayneing honour well it governe can.
Of the murther of Davies.
94. I would have wisht some other had him stroke,
And in a place more farther from my sight,
Or for his right arraigned he had spoke,
Or of his death some other sense had light.
95. A Princes presence should a pardon bee,
A ladyes shout should moue a manly mynde,
A childwifes chamber should from bloud be free,
A wife by husband should not slaunder finde.
101. To disvnite their league I went about,
For cables crack like threds when they vntuist.
That not the Queen but others procured Bothwell to murther Lord Darly.[149]
118. It stoode them well upon to finde a way
To rid a foe whose power they well might feare;
They knewe the King did watch reuenging day,
And Bothwell did them litle likeing beare,
They knewe ambition might his malice teare,
They knewe the hope of kingdome and of me
Would win him to the Kings decay agree.
119. To fayne my hand to worke soe greate effect
They would not stick to haue their lives assured.
109. Howe ere it was, by whose soeuer fact,
The breache of peace betwixt us growne of late,
Our parted bed, my loue which somewhat slackt,
Some letters shewed as myne importing hate,
With the slender shewe I make in mourners state[150]
Conferred with my match which did ensue,
Makes most suppose a false report for true.