For never knight, that dared warlike deede,
More lucklesse disaventures did amate:
Witnesse the dungeon deepe, wherein of late
Thy life shut up, for death so oft did call;
And though good lucke prolonged hath thy date,[°]
Yet death then would the like mishaps forestall,
Into the which hereafter thou maiest happen fall.
XLVI
Why then doest thou, O man of sin, desire