Which made mee muse, that in so great a case
I should no whit of counsayle bee at all,
Who yet had rule, and next the king in place,
Me thought nothing my state could more disgrace
Then to beare name, and in effect to bee
A cypher in algrim, as all men mought see.
57.
And though iust cause I had for to suspect
The time and place apoynted by my foes,
And that my friendes most playnly did detect