For hitherto slye wryters wily wits,

Which haue engrossed princes chiefe affayres,

Haue bene like horses snaffled with the bits

Of fancy, feare, or doubts full deepe dispayres,

Whose raynes enchained to the cheifest chayres,

Haue so bene straynde of those that bare the stroke

That truth was forste to chow or els to choke.

6.

This caused such as lothed lowd to ly,

To passe with silence sundry princes lyues: