What, may man’s vayne deuises ought auaile?
Dishonest deedes no honour can obtayne,
Al murthering massacres be vile and vayne,
Such suttle slayghtes haue neuer good successe;
The proofe whereof with payne I here expresse.
18.
For Swane with swoorde and fyre did[1244] destroye,
Both man and beast, and euery earthly thing,
He did that noble London much annoy,
He wonne the realme and was the Englishe king: