When loyall loue thy Prince, let treason trudge beside.]
Londricvs the Picte slayne by King Marius of Britayne, about the 80. yeere of Christ, giues his verdit of Fortune.
1.
Fortune erst was wont to lift aloft her children high,[1040]
And giue them kingdoms great and conquests at her will,
And place them, as they thought, aboue the gods welnigh,
She blindly leades them forth as is her custome still,
With pleasures all a while she doth their fancies fill,
And at the last doth let them fall in foule despite againe.[1041]
Shee sets aloft and pulles them downe with might and maine;