[And of our lewdnes springeth all our ill.]

11.

If so a man might stay on Fortune’s holde,

Or else on Prince, as piller of defence,

Then might my selfe t’haue done[761] the same bee bolde,

In euery perill, purpose, or pretence:

Cassibellane as much as any Prince,

Lou’d mee his cosin[762] Irenglas by name,

Both for my feats in armes, and fauour, fame,[763]

[And for because I of his linage came.]