76.
Where, close to swords in fight we would haue stood
Had not our friends foreseene the future harmes
Of our debate, who tending either’s good,
To calme the tempest of warre’s threatfull stormes,
First caus’d vs lay aside our angrie armes,
Then counsell’d Henrie to such couenants yeeld
As Rufus did, when he the state did weeld.
77.
As he, while he did liue, for England’s crowne,