Of your progenitors that Nilus rul’d,

Force take from you; the Gods haue will’d it so,

To whome oft times Princes are odiouse.

They haue to euery thing an end ordain’d;

All worldly greatnes by them bounded is;

Some sooner, later some, as they think best:

None their decree is able to infringe.

But, which is more, to vs disastred men

Which subiect are in all things to their will,

Their will is hidd: nor while we liue, we know