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: