And, for they could no crime agaynst him fynd,

They forgde a fault the people’s eyes to blinde,

And told he should by sorceries pretend

To bring the king vnto a spedy ende.

47.

Of all which poynts he was as innocent

As is the babe that lacketh kindely breth:

And yet condemned by the king’s assent,

Most cruelly put to a shamefull death:

This fierd my hart, as foulder doth the heath: