7.

Among which fooles, marke, Baldwine, I am one,

That would not stay my selfe in mine estate:

I thought to rule but to obay to none,

And therefore fell I with my king at bate:

And to the end I might him better mate,

Iohn Mortimer I caused my selfe bee called,

Whose kingly bloud the Henryes nigh had thralled.[794]

8.

This shift I vsed, the people to perswade