The house of mightie Prince it seemd to bee:

And towards it a broad high way that led,

All bare through peoples feet, which thither traveiled.

III

Great troupes of people traveild thitherward

Both day and night, of each degree and place,[°]

But few returned, having scaped hard,[°]

With balefull beggerie, or foule disgrace;

Which ever after in most wretched case,