Or shall I say, I was forsooth the King?[656]
Then might I liue as lewdely as I lust,
No sure, I cannot so auoide the sting
Of shame that prickes such Princes are vniust.
Wee rather should vnto our vertues trust,
For vertue of the auncient bloud or kinne,
Doth onely praise the parties shee’s within.[657]
7.
And nobles onely borne (of this bee sure)
Without the vertues of their noble race,