Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems

20 A man of thy profession and degree;

And for thy treachery, what’s more manifest?

In that thou laid’st a trap to take my life,

As well at London-bridge as at the Tower.

Beside, I fear me, if thy thoughts were sifted,

25 The king, thy sovereign, is not quite exempt

From envious malice of thy swelling heart.

[♦] Win. Gloucester, I do defy thee. Lords, vouchsafe

To give me hearing what I shall reply.