For which exployt wee bound our selues in band,

To stand contented ech man with his parte,

So fully folly assurde[535] our foolish hearte.

27.

But such, they say, as fishe before the net,

Shall seeldome surfet of the pray they take:

Of thinges to come the haps bee so vnset,

That none but fooles may warraunt of them make:

The full assured successe doth oft forsake:

For fortune findeth none so fit to flout,