That being yong, and but a very spring,

Henry Hotspur they gaue him vnto name,[567]

And though I say it, hee did deserue the same.

5.

Wee three triumphed in king Richard’s time,

Till fortune ought both him and vs a spite:

But chiefly mee, whome clerely from[568] any crime,

My king did banishe from his fauour quite,

Proclayming mee a trayterous knight:[569]

Where through false slaunder forced mee to bee,