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.

19.

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