Rored, and raged to be vnder-kept:

Yet he perforce him held, and strokes vpon him hept.

As he that striues to stop a suddein flood, xxxiv

And in strong banckes his violence enclose[1025],

Forceth it swell aboue his wonted mood,

And largely ouerflow the fruitfull plaine,

That all the countrey seemes to be a Maine,

And the rich furrowes flote, all quite fordonne:

The wofull husbandman doth lowd complaine,

To see his whole yeares labour lost so soone,