That all my treaties had but ill pretence,

And when I sawe my king so bent to lust,

That with his fayth hee past not to dispence,

Which is a prince’s honour’s chiefe defence:

I could not rest till I had found a meane

To mend his misse, or els to marre him cleane.

7.

[Wherefore] I mee allied[1123] with his brother George,

Incensing him his brother to maligne,

Through many a tale I did against him forge: