These wicked men thus from the king remoued, Who best vs pleased succeeded in their place: For which both king and commons much vs loued, But chiefly I with all stoode high in grace: The king ensued my rede in euery case, Whence selfe-loue bred: for glory maketh proude, And pride aye looketh[328] alone to bee allowde. 7. Wherefore to th’end I might alone enioy The king’s good will,[329] I made his lust my lawe: And where of late I laboured to distroy Such flattering folke, as thereto stoode in awe, Now learned I among the rest to clawe: For pride is such, if it bee kindely caught, As stroyeth good, and stirreth vppe euery naught. 8. Pride pricketh men to[330] flatter for the pray, T’oppresse and poll[331] for maintnaunce of the same, To malice such as match vnethes it may: And to bee briefe, pride doth the harte enflame, To fyre what mischiefe any fraude may frame, And euer[332] at length the euyls by it wrought Confound the worker, and bring him vnto[333] nought. 9. Behold in mee due proofe of euery part: For pride first forced mee my prince to flatter[334] So much that whatsoeuer[335] pleased his harte Were it neuer[336] so euill, I thought a lawfull matter, Which causde the lordes afreshe agaynst him clatter: Because hee had his holdes beyond sea solde,[337] And seene his souldiers of theyr wages polde. 10. Though all these ils were done by mine[338] assent,[339] Yet such was lucke that each man deemed no: For see, the duke of _Glocester_ for mee sent,[340] With other lordes, whose hartes did bleede for woe, To see the realme so fast to ruin goe: In fault whereof, they sayd the two dukes were, The one of _Yorke_, the other [of] _Lancaster_. 11. On whose remoue fro being about[341] the king Wee all agreed, and sware a solemne oth, And whilst the rest prouided for this thing, I, flatterer I, to winne the prayse of troth, Wretch that I was, brake fayth and promise both, For I bewrayed to th’king[342] theyr whole intent, For which vnwares they all were tane and shent.[343] 12. Thus was the warder of the common weale The duke of _Glocester_ giltlesse made away, With other moe, more wretch I so to deale, Who through vntruth theyr trust did ill betray: Yet by this meanes obtayned I my pray, Of king and dukes I found for this such fauour, As made mee duke of _Northfolke_ for my labour. 13.