And kept my giltlesse cosin strayt in duraunce:
For whome my father hard entreated hath:
But liuing hopelesse of his line’s assuraunce,
Hee thought it best by pollitike procuraunce,
To priue[972] the king, and so restore his frend:
Which brought him selfe to an infamous end.[973]
8.
For whan king Henry,[974] of that name the fifte,
Had tane my father in his[975] conspiracy,[976]
Hee, from sir Edmund all the blame to shifte,