9.
The cheifest crime wherewith men doe me charge,
Is death of th’[1101] earle of Desmund’s noble sonnes,
Of which the kinge’s charge doth me clere discharge,
By strayt commaundement and iniunctions:
Th’effect whereof so rigorously runnes,
That eyther I must procure to see them dead,
Or for contempt as a traytour loose my head.[1102]
10.
What would mine enemies[1103] doe in such a case,