That want of strength dooth let thinges drop downright.

20.

Canutus did from Denmarke nowe returne,

The wrathful wight appoynted passyng strong,

My subiects slue, my cities he did burne;

Which when I hearde I liude not very long,

My faynting hart was thronged with a throng

Of cares, which broke it in my feareful brest,

And so at last death brought my bones to rest.

21.