Trust who so will the staffe of hye estate,
And bring mee word what stay thereby you haue:
For why, if Fortune once displeasure take,
Shee geues the foyle, though lookes bee neuer so braue,
Tis wisedome when you winne, to winne to saue:[309]
For oft who trustes to get a Prince his trayne,
Would at the length of begger’s life be fayne.
3.
This might the Hunne erst Humber well haue sayd,
And this my mother Elstride prou’d to true,