7.
Behold mee vnfortunate forman of this flocke,[95]
Tresilian, sometime[96] chiefe justice of this land,
A gentleman by byrth,[97] no staine was in my stocke,
Locketon, Holte, and[98] Belknap, with other of my band,
Which the lawe and justice had wholly in our hand,
Under the second Richarde a prince of great estate,[99]
To whome and vs also, blinde fortune gaue the mate.[100]
8.
In the common[101] lawes our skill was so profounde,