25.
Likewise I wist if once I sought to flye,
Or to entreat the King depart I might,
Then would he strayght be discontent with me.
Yea if I were pursued vppon the flight,
Or came deflourd into my father’s[285] sight,
I should be taken, kept perforce, or slayne,
Or in my countrey liue in great disdayne.
26.
In such a plight what might a Lady[286] doe,