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