When state to me those ceremonies show’d That to so great a fauorite were due, And fortune still with honors did me load, As though no meane she in my rising knew, Or heauen to me more then to man had ow’d, (What to the world vnheard of was and new) And was to other sparing of her store Till she could giue, or aske I could[2057] no more. 63. Those high preferments he vpon me laid, Might make the world me publikely to know Such as in[2058] iudgement rightly being wai’d, Seemed too great for me to vndergo, Nor could his hand from powring on be stai’d, Vntill I so abundantly did flow, That looking downe whence lately I was cloame, Danger bid[2059] feare, if further I should roame. 64. For first from knighthood rising in degree, The office of the iewell house my lot, After the Roles he frankely gaue to mee, From whence a priuie counsellor I got, Chose of[2060] the garter: and the[2061] earle to bee Of Essex: yet sufficient these not[2062] But to the great vicegerencie I grew, Being a title as supreame as new. 65. So well did me these dignities befit, And honor so me euery way became, As more then man I had been made for it, Or as from me it had deriu’d the name: Where was that man[2063] whose loue I not requit Beyond his owne imaginarie aime, Which had me succour’d, neerely being driuen, As things to me that idlely were not giuen? 66. What tongue so slow the tale shall not report Of hospitable _Friscobald_ and mee, And shew in how reciprocall a sort My thankes did with his courtesie agree, When as my meanes in Italy were short That me relieu’d, lesse great that[2064] would not bee, When I of England chancellor was made,[2065] His former bounties librally repai’d? 67. The maner briefly gentler muse relate, Since oft before it wisely hath been told, The sudden change of vnauoided fate, That famous merchant, reuerend _Friscobald_, Grew poore, and the small remnant of his state Was certaine goods to England he had sold, Which in the hands of creditors, but bad, Small hope to get, yet lesser meanes he had. 68. Hither his wants him forciblie constrain’d, Though with long trauell both by land and seas, Led by this hope, that only now remain’d, Whereon his fortune finally he laies, And if he found that friendship heere were fain’d, Yet at the worst it better should him please, Farre out of sight, to perish heere vnknowne, Then vnrelieu’d be pitied of his owne. 69.