Yet mischiefe so through malice led my will,

To bring this duke[348] from honour vnto shame,

And toward my selfe, my soueraygne to enflame:

That I bewrayed his wordes vnto the king,

Not as a reade, but as a [most] haynous thing.

17.

Thus where my duty bound mee to haue tolde

The prince his fault, and wil’d him to refrayne,

Through flattery loe, I did his ill vpholde,

Which turnde at length both him and mee to payne: