Yet from my youth in warre affaires being bred,

I knew that if in this conspiracie

I did without delay cut off the head,

The rest being stricken with timiditie,

Would soone be quell’d by force or pollicie:

Wherefore with all my power I did pursue

The duke of Buckingham and his Welch crue.

47.

He towards Glocester his way did take,

There to haue ioyned with the westerne powre,