[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.]