As next the king he was successive heir,
50 And such high vaunts of his nobility,
Did instigate the bedlam brain-sick duchess
By wicked means to frame our sovereign’s fall.
[♦] Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep;
And in his simple show he harbours treason.
55 The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.
No, no, my sovereign; Gloucester is a man
Unsounded yet and full of deep deceit.
Car. Did he not, contrary to form of law,