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,