For nothing so a man in ill torments,

As who to him his good state represents.

This makes my rack, my anguish, and my woe

Equall vnto the hellish passions growe,

When I to minde my happie puisance call

Which erst I had by warlike conquest wonne,

And that good fortune which me neuer left,

Which hard disastre now hath me bereft.

With terror tremble all the world I made

At my sole worde, as Rushes in the streames