Disdayne not, princes, easie accesse, meeke cheare, Wee knowe then angels statelier port ye beare Of God himselfe, to massy a charge for sprites: But then, my lords, considre, hee delights To vayle his grace to vs pore earthly wants, To simplest shrubs, and to the dunghill plants: Expresse him then, in might, and mercies meane, So shall ye winne, as now ye weld,[1328] the reame. 14. But all to long I feare I do delay The many meanes, whereby I did bewray My zealous will to earne my prince’s grace, Least thou differ to thinke mee kynde, percase: As nought may last, so fortune’s weathry[1329] cheare With powting lookes gan lower on my sire, And one her wheele, aduaunst hye in his roome The _Warwicke_ earle, mase of Christendome.[1330] 15. Besides the tempting prowesse of the foe, His traytour brother did my prince forgoe:[1331] The cause was lik’d, I was his link’d[1332] allye: Yet not the cause, nor brother’s trechery, Nor enmies force, ne[1333] band of mingled bloud, Made _Hastings_ beare his prince other[1334] minde then good: But tane and scapt from _Warwick’s_ gryping pawes, With mee hee fled through fortune’s frowards flawes. 16. To _London_ come, at large wee might haue seemed, Had not wee then the realme a pryson deemed: Ech hush a barre, ech spray a banner splayed, Ech house a fort, our passage to haue stayed: To _Linne_ wee leape, where, while wee wayte[1335] the tyde, My secret frends in secret I supplyde, In mouth to mayntayne[1336] _Henry_ sixt theyr king, By deede to deuoyre: _Edward_ to bring in.[1337] 17. The restles tyde, that bare[1338] the empty bay, With waltring waues roames wambling forth: ‘away,’ The mery mariner hayles,[1339] the bragging boy To mastes hye top, vp hyes: in signe of ioy The wauering flag is vaunst: the suttel[1340] seas Theyr swelling ceasse: to calmest, euen peace, Sinkth downe theyr pryde: with dronknesse gainst all care The seamen armde, awayte theyr noble fare. 18. On bourd wee come: the massy anchors wayde, One _English_ ship, two hulkes of _Holland_ ayde In such a pinch: so small tho was the trayne, Such his constraynt, that now, that one with payne Commaund hee might, who erst might[1341] many moe: Then brought the ghastly _Greekes_ to[1342] _Tenedo_: So nought is ours that wee by hap mought[1343] lose, What nerest seemes, is farthest off in woes. 19.