Let stories truely tell where I doe halte in this:[1105]
Lest some suspect, that I reporte amisse.
For what is hee, which is not counted [partiall] vayne,
When for himselfe hee speakes, though [plea bee] nere so playne.
4.
In peace I [wise and] prudent was, and graue of grace,
In warres of courage good, but[1106] not so fearce withall:
Not forste with feare to turne from foes my face,
Nor bought with bribes to let Dame Justice fall,
I lou’de not, I, to throng the weaker sort[1107] with thrall,