Which ment no lesse, that hee[900] most pretended,
Like to a serpent couert[901] vnder greene,
To the weale publique seemed wholy bended:
Zelous he was, and would haue all thinges mended,
But by that mendment nothing els hee ment
But to bee king, to that marke was his bent.
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For had hee beene playne, as hee ment indeede,
Henry to depose from the royall place,
His hast had beene waste, and much worse his speede,