Passibus ambiguis fortuna volubilis errat, Et manet in nullo certa tenáxq; loco; Sed modò læta manet, vultus modò sumit acerbos. Et tantùm constans in leuitate sua est.) now that the erle of Kent was thus out of the kings fauour, there were few or none of those whome he had before béene beneficiall vnto, that shewed themselues as fréends and louers vnto him, but all forsooke & were readie to saie the worst of him, the archbishop of Dubline excepted, who yet obteined of the king respit for him to make answere vnto such things as should lawfullie be obiected against him, both for the debt which should be due to the king, and also vpon points of treason, which were now laid to his charge. ¶ Wherin we may sée what hath béene the course of the world in former ages touching fréends, who in the spring of a mans felicitie like swallowes will flie about him; but when the winter of aduersitie nippeth, like snailes they kéepe within their shels: wherevnto the poet verie well alluding, saith. [Sidenote: _Hor. lib. car. 1. od. 35._] ----diffugiunt cadis Cum fæce siccatis amici, Ferre iugum pariter dolosi. [Sidenote: _Matth. Paris._] After this, as the said Hubert would haue gone to S. Edmundsburie in Suffolke, where his wife as then remained, he was apprehended at Burntwood in Essex, within a chappell there (as saith Fabian.) But (as Matthew Paris saith) sir Robert de Cranecombe, with thrée hundred armed men was sent to apprehend him by the kings commandement, and so he was taken in a village belonging to the bishop of Norwich in Essex, and by the kings commandement cast into prison, but yet afterwards he was reconciled to the kings fauour, when he had lien foure moneths in prison, and thirtéene moneths banished the court. [Sidenote: A subsidie granted in a parlement holden at Lambeth.] [Sidenote: An. Reg. 17.] [Sidenote: _Matth. Paris._] [Sidenote: Ranulfe earle of Chester departeth this life.] [Sidenote: Erle Ranulfe thrice maried.] [Sidenote: This Clemence was daughter to erle Ferrers.]