But see how pride and enuy ioyntly runne, Because my prince did more than mee prefer, Sir _Henry Bolenbroke_, the eldest sonne Of _Iohn_ of _Gaunt_, the duke of _Lancaster_, Proud I, that would alone bee blasing starre, Enuyde this duke[344] for naught saue that the shyne Of his desertes did glister more than mine. 14. To th’end therefore his light should bee the lesse, I sliely sought all shiftes to put him[345] out: But as the poyze that would the palme tree presse[346] Doth cause the bowes sprede larger rounde about, So spite and enuy causeth glory sprout, And aye the more the top is ouertrode, The deeper doth the sound roote sprede abroade. 15. For when this _Henry_ duke[347] of _Hereforde_ sawe, What spoyle the king made of the noble bloud, And that without all justice, cause, or lawe: To suffer him so hee thought not sure, nor good, Wherefore to mee, twofaced in one hood, As touching this, hee fully brake his minde, As to his friend that should remedy finde. 16. But I, although I knewe my prince did ill, So that my harte abhorred sore the same, Yet mischiefe so through malice led my will, To bring this duke[348] from honour vnto shame, And toward my selfe, my soueraygne to enflame: That I bewrayed his wordes vnto the king, Not as a reade, but as a [most] haynous thing. 17. Thus where my duty bound mee to haue tolde The prince his fault, and wil’d him to refrayne, Through flattery loe, I did his ill vpholde, Which turnde at length both him and mee to payne: Woe, woe to kinges, whose counsaylours doe fayne, Woe, woe to realmes, where such are put in trust As leaue the lawe, to serue the prince’s lust. 18. And woe to him that by his flattering reede, Mayntaynes[349] a prince in any kind of vice: Woe worth him eke for enuy, pride, or meede, That misreportes any[350] honest enterprise: Because I beast in all these poynts was nice, The plagues of all together on mee light, And due for ill, doers doth acquite. 19. For when the duke[351] was charged with my plaint, Hee flat denyde that any part was true, And claymde by armes to aunswere his attaynt, And I by vse that warlyke[352] feates well knewe, To his desire incontinently drewe: Wherewith the king did seeme right well content, As one that past not much with whome it went. 20.