Which hee in order thus mee thought did then contriue,

Desiring mee to write it so, to warne the rest aliue.

How King Bladvd,[408] taking on him to fly, fell vpon the Temple of Apollo, and brake his necke, The yeare before Christ, 844.

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I pray thee Higgins take in hand thy pen

And write my life and fall, among’st the rest

A warning set mee downe for curious men,

Whose wittes the worke of nature seeke to wrest:

I was Prince Bladud, pregnant as the best

Of wisedome, and of wealth, and learning I had store,