For loue to ayde her, venter in would I That sawe my mother striue aloft for winde. To land shee lookte and sayd: “Farewell, I die!” “O let mee goe (quoth I) like fate to finde!” Sayd _Guendoline_: “Come on likewise, and binde This _Sabrine_ here likewise, for so shall shee At once receiue[326] her whole request of mee. 23. “Eke as I wish to haue in minde her fame, As _Humber’s_ is, which should her father beene: So shall this floude of _Sabrine_ haue the name, That men thereby may say, a righteous Queene Here drown’d her husband’s childe of concubine. Therefore leaue _Sabrine_ here thy name and life, Let _Sabrine_ waters end our mortall strife.” 24. “Dispatch!” (quoth shee:) With that they bound mee fast, My slender armes and feete, with[327] little neede: And sans all mercy, mee in waters cast, Which drewe mee downe, and cast mee vp with speede, And downe mee drencht the _Sabrine_ fish to feede: Where I abode till now from whence I came, And there the waters hold as yet my name.[328] 25. Lo thus this gelous Queene, in raging sort, With bloudy hate bereft her husband’s health: And eke my mother _Elstride’s_ life (God wot) Which neuer ment to hurt this common wealth. And mee, _Locrinus’_ childe, begot by stealth: Agaynst all reason was it for to kill The childe, for that her parents erst did ill. 26. But here[329] you see, what time our pompe doth hyde, Hereby you see th’vnsteady trust in warre, Hereby you see the stay of states etride, Hereby you see, our hope to make doth marre, Hereby you see, wee fall from bench to barre. From bench,[330] (quoth I) yea from the Princely seate, You see how soone vs Fortune downe doth beate. 27. And here you see, how lawlesse loue doth thriue, Hereby you see, how gelous folkes doe fare: Here may you see, with wisedome they that wiue, Neede neuer recke _Cupidoe’s_ cursed snare, Here may you see, deuorcement breedeth care, Here seldome thriue the children may you see,[331] Which in vnlawfull wedlocke gotten bee. 28. Declare thou then our fall and great mishap, Declare the hap, and glory wee were in: Declare how soone wee taken were in trap, When wee suppos’d wee had most safest bin. Declare what losse they haue that hope to win. When Fortune most doth sweetely seeme to smile,[332] Then will shee froune: she laughes but euen a while.[333] LENUOY. 1.