That I had felte, and of my brother’s force:

Howe Guthlacke did my wife and me diuorce,

The broyles at Sea, the toyles I taken had at land,

Which neuer coulde the face of Fortune’s foyle withstand.

16.

Thou Britayne tall (quoth he) I rue thy fate,

Thou noble Prince (for so thou art in showe)

If I could now restore thee thine estate,

Thou shouldst perceyue what fauour I thee owe;

’Tis Fortune’s vse t’exalte and ouerthrow;