As sleyers of their parents, viper’s broode:
The killers of their brothers, frends, and kinne,
In like degree well nigh of treason stoode:
But what by this winne they, saue death, defame,
Distayne theyr bloud, and shroude themselues with shame.
9.
Example take you Princes of the[539] land,
Beware of discord, shun ambitious pride:
By right take yee the scepter in your hand,
Let not your sword with soueraignes bloud be dide: