And tops of trees most subiect vnto winde,
And as great towers with stone strongly cowched,
Haue heauy falles when they be vndermynde,
Euen so by proofe in worldly thinges wee finde,
That such as clime the top of high degree
From perill of falling neuer can bee free.
2.
To proue this true, good Baldwine, hearken hyther,
See, and behold mee vnhappy Humfrey,[697]
England’s protector and duke of Glocester,