His dronken corse[144] he scarse vpholden can,

In shape and life more like a monster, then a man.

Vnfit he was for any worldly[145] thing, xxiii

And eke vnhable[146] once to stirre or go,

Not meet to be of counsell to a king,

Whose mind in meat and drinke was drowned so,

That from his friend he seldome[147] knew his fo:

Full of diseases was his carcas blew,

And a dry dropsie through his flesh did flow:

Which by misdiet daily greater grew: