Thus euer happie, for there is no meane
Twixt blisseful liues and mortal deathe’s extreame:
Yet feared not his foes to staine his name,
And by these sclaunders to procure his shame.
88.
In rousty armure as in extreame shift,
They clad themselues, to cloake their diuelish drift:
And forthwith for substancial citezens sent,
Declaring to them, Hastinges forged entent,
Was to haue slaine the duke: and to haue seised