Therefore he saith he
was compelled to fly into the City for succour and assistance; not
much unlike Pisistratus, of whom it was so anciently written how he
gashed and wounded himself, and in that sort ran crying into Athens
that his life was sought and like to have been taken away; thinking
to have moved the people to have pitied him and taken his part by
such counterfeited harm and danger; whereas his aim and drift was
to take the government of the city into his hands and alter the
form thereof. With like pretences of dangers and assaults the Earl
of Essex entered the City of London and passed through the bowels
thereof, blanching rumours that he should have been murdered and
that the State was sold; whereas he had no such enemies, no such
dangers: persuading themselves that if they could prevail all would
have done well. But now _magna scelera terminantur in haeresin_; for
you, my Lord, should know that though princes give their subjects
cause of discontent, though they take away the honours they have
heaped upon them, though they bring them to a lower estate than
they raised them from, yet ought they not to be so forgetful of
their allegiance that they should enter into any undutiful act;
much less upon rebellion, as you, my Lord, have done.
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