To higher things ambitiously I aime,

Who for my promise of promotion, gaue

His minde to mine, in each thing I could craue.

29.

Hastings, whose loyaltie stood in my way,

Vpon his fall to build my future power,

As he at counsell sate vpon a day

With other lordings in the fatall Tower,

By my deceit there met his liue’s last houre:

Where he, fond lord, did think himselfe most sure,