"This, this pretence (faith fhe), th' ambitious find,

"Tofmooth injuftice, and to flatter wrong:

peers, and most courageous men)

Gat ame to them at home, that had in hand Th'godly work, and knew the feafon when ; Wo fail not to advife the Duke with speed, Soliciting to what he foon agreed.

LXXXIX.

Stay here thy foot, thy yet unguilty foot, That canft not stay when thou art further in: keure thee yet unftain'd, whilst it doth boot; The end is fpoil of what thou doft begin. Indice never yet took lasting root, Nor held that long, impiety did win : The babes unborn fhall (O!) be born to bleed in this thy quarrel, if thou do proceed.”

The Duke being banished in September, landed in the ng July after, at Ravenspurre iu Yorkihire; fome with Go men, others with 1000, and eight ships, ath and furaifhed by the Duke of Bretagne, Anu. The genius of England appears to Bolingbroke.

"When thou shalt fee thyfelf advanc'd and ftrong. "When thou haft fhak'd off that which others

bind,

"Thou foon forgettest what thou learneft long : "Men do not know what then themselves will be, "When as more than themselves, themfelves they fee."

We will not fay nor think, O Lancaster!
But that thou then didft mean as thou didst fwear
Upon th' evangelifts at Doncafter,

In th' eye of heaven, and that affembly there.
That thou but as an upright orderer,
Sought'it to reform th' abufed kingdom here,
And get thy right, and what was thine before:
And this was all; thou would't attempt no more.