If a poore lady damned in exile
Amongst princes may bee allowed place,
Then, gentle Baldwine, stay thy pen a while,
And of pure pitty ponder well my case,
How I a duches, destitute of grace,
Haue found by proofe, as many haue and shall,
The prouerbe true, that pride will haue a fall.
2.
A noble prince extract of royall bloud,
Humfrey, sometime protector of this land,