For force through spede, sleight speedeth through delayes,
And seeld doth treason time so fitly finde,
As whan all daungers most bee out of minde.
6.
Wherefore while Henry, of that name the fifte,
Prepard his army to goe conquere Fraunce,
Lord Scroope and I thought to attempt a drift
To put him downe, my brother to auaunce:
But were it[593] God’s will, my lucke, or his good chaunce
The king wist wholly where about wee went