Note now the lot which on my limmes did lyght, Nine monthes no more, I wore the _Englishe_ crowne, In euery month I in the feelde did fight, In euery fyght, I wonne a freshe renowne, Yet at the last my strength was beaten downe: And here before you, now I do protest, I neuer had one day of quiet rest. 20. For fyrst with warre I wonne the princely seate, With ciuil strife I dayly was distrest, My brother twise indeuorde to defeate Me of my throne, the _Norway_ king was prest, The dreadful _Danes_ they dayly mee distrest: At last, this duke did make me strike my sayle, When winde, nor tide, nor oares, myght[1263] preuayle. 21. My kingdome then was proude his lawful price, With conquest he recouered his right, And as you see of conquering the guise, The _Englishmen_ they were defaced quite; Then of his trayne he did prepare[1264] ech wyght: And this was that which onely brought me blesse, I did not liue to see this wretchednesse. 22. But woe to me which caused al this coyle, I was an earle my father being dead: Why did my brest with scalding malice boyle, To kepe the crowne from the right heyre’s head? O fancye fonde, thy fuminges hath mee fed, The stinking stinch of thyne inclined hest, Hath poysoned al the vertues in my brest. 23. The ruthful roodes[1265] of proued euil[1266] successe, Who hath sustaynde that passing pinching[1267] payne, That woful wight al wrapt in wrecthednesse, Can well report man’s fancye is but vayne: That man doth know, by proofe he findes it playne, That he who stoopes to fancie’s fond desires, Doth grope for grapes amidst the bramble briers. 24. Let no man thinke by fetches finely filde, By double drifts conuayed cunningly, To get or gayne by any craft or guile, A good estate with long prosperitie: His lust obtaynde, he liues in miserie, His guiltie ghost dooth see his plague appeare, Who goeth straight he needeth not to feare. FINIS. _Goe straight and feare not._ END OF PART II. VOLUME THE FIRST. T. Bensley, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London. FOOTNOTES: [1] In discussing the first and second heads, it must be recollected that the subject confines the inquiry to that portion of the work, which was edited by _William Baldwin_, and forming Part III. in the present edition. [2] _Hist. of English Poetry_, vol. iii. p. 209. [3] _Bibliographia Poetica_, p. 88. [4] See vol. ii. p. 7.