30.

Whence enuy sprang, and specially because

This proud prelate could not abide a peere

Within the land to rule the state by lawes,

Wherefore sifting my life and actes most neere,

Hee neuer ceast, vntill, as you shall heare,

By practise foule of him and his allies,

My death was wrought in most vnworthy wise.

31.

And first hee sought my doings to defame,