I vndertooke to claime my lawfull right,

And to abash such as against mee tooke,[988]

I raysed power at all poyntes prest to fight:

Of whome the chiefe, that chiefly bare mee spight,

Was Somerset the duke, whome to annoy

I alway sought, through spite, spite to destroy.[989]

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And maugre him, so choyse, lo, was my chaunce,

Yea though the quene, that all rulde, tooke his part,[990]

I twise bare rule[991] in Normandy and Fraunce,