Whether it be for Europe's good or ill,

Nor whether the Empire can itself maintain

Against the Turkish power encroaching still;[565]

Nor what great town in all the Netherlands

The States determine to besiege this spring,10

Nor how the Scottish policy now stands,

Nor what becomes of the Irish mutining.[566]

But he doth seriously bethink him whether

Of the gull'd people he be more esteem'd

For his long cloak or for[567] his great black feather