When the great king their strange reports that tooke That as[2052] pernitious as they potent were, Which[2053] at the faire growth of my fortune strooke, Whose deadly malice blame me not to feare, Me at the first so violently shooke, That they this frame were likely downe to beare, If resolution with a setled brow Had not vpheld my peremptorie vow. 56. Yet these encounters thrust me not awry, Nor could my courses force me to forsake, After this shipwrack I againe must trie, Some happier voiage hopefull still to make, The plots that barren long we see did lie, Some fitting season plentifully take, One fruitfull haruest frankly doth restore What many winters hindred had before. 57. That to account I strictly call my wit How it this while had managed my state, My soule in counsell summoning to sit, If possible to turne the course of fate, For waies there be the greatest things to hit, If men could find the peremptorie gate, And since I once was got so neere the brinke More then before, ’twould grieue me now to sinke. 58. _Bedford_,[2054] whose life (some said) that I had sau’d In Italy, one me that[2055] sauoured most, And reuerend _Hayles_, who but occasion crau’d To shew his loue, no lesse that I had cost, Who to the king perceiuing me disgrac’d, Whose fauour I vnluckily had lost, Both with him great, a foot set in withall If not to stay, to qualifie my fall. 59. High their regard, yet higher was their hap, Well neere quite sunke, recouer me that could, And once more get me into fortune’s lap, Which well my selfe might teach me there to hold, Escap’d out of so dangerous a trap, Whose praise by me to ages shall be told, As the two props by which I only rose, When most supprest, most trod on by my foes. 60. This me to vrge the premunire wonne, Ordain’d in matters dangerous and hie, In t’which the heedlesse prelacie were runne, That backe vnto the papacie did flie, Sworne to that sea, and what before was done Due to the king, dispensed were thereby, In t’which first entring offred me the meane That to throw downe, alreadie that did leane. 61. This was to me that ouerflowing sourse, From whence his bounties plentifully spring, Whose speedie current with vnusuall force Bare me into the bosome of the king, By putting him into that readie course Which soone to passe his purposes might bring, Where those which late emperiously control’d me Pale strooke[2056] with feare stood trembling to behold me. 62.