But God confoundes our proude deuices all,
And brings that thing wherein we most doe trust,
To our destruction by his iudgement iust.
10.
For when three yeares I ruled had this Ile,
Without all rule as was my rulesse life,[666]
The rumour ranne abroade within a while,
And chiefly in the Norwest Countrey rife,
A monster came from Th’irish seas, brought griefe
To all my subiectes, in those coastes did dwell,