But looke my lords what liuely worlde was this,

That one poore man became so great a peere?

Yet though this tale be very straunge to heere,

Wit wins a worlde; and who hath hap and wit,

With triumph long in princely throne may sit.

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What man like mee bare rule in any age,

I shone like sun more cleare then morning star:

Was neuer parte so playde, in open stage,

As mine, nor fame of man flewe halfe so far: