The duke’s returne, return’d me from my ease,
No promise myght his raging wrath appease:
But when he knewe the drifte of my delayes,
To cause my death he sought an hundred wayes.
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Then I the wrath of rash reuenge to flye,
Thinking that time myght mitigate his moode:
To Troynouant in haste I did me hye:
Which when the wrathful duke once vnderstoode,[1206]
He raysde my realme, and by his myght and powre