[♦] If I were covetous, ambitious or perverse,

30 As he will have me, how am I so poor?

[♦] Or how haps it I seek not to advance

Or raise myself, but keep my wonted calling?

[♦] And for dissension, who preferreth peace

More than I do?—except I be provoked.

35 No, my good lords, it is not that offends;

[♦] It is not that that hath incensed the duke:

It is, because no one should sway but he;

No one but he should be about the king;