I sate on bench, when thowsands at the bar

Did pleade for right: for I in publique weale

Lorde chaunclour was and had the great broad seale.

38.

Now haue I tolde how I did rise aloft,

And sate with pride and pomp, in golden hall,

And set my feete on costly carpets soft,

And playde at goale with goodly golden ball:

But after, Lord, I must rehearse my fall:

O trembling heart, thou canst not now for teares