[1] This did shée, to the intent that by the open decla|ration of these fained phantasies, the people might be persuaded to giue credit, and beléeue that he was the true begotten sonne of hir brother king Edward. And after this, shee assigned to him a gard of thirtie persons in murrie and blew, and highlie honoured him as a great estate,Perkin n [...]|med by the dutches of Burgognie the white ro [...]e of England. and called him the white rose of England. The nobilitie of Flanders did to him all reuerence. [All which port and pompe exhibited in most solemne sort, he was well content to take vpon him, forgetting the basenesse of his birth, and glori|eng in the counterfeit title of honour:149 [...] much like the iay that would be called a swan, or like the crow that trimming hir selfe with the stolne feathers of a pecocke, would séeme Iunos bird; as the poet saith:
—mentito nomine cygnumM. Pal. [...]Graculus appellat sese, cornicula plumasPauonis furata cupit pauo ipsa videri.