Who in the time of the sixt king Henry,

Ruled this realme yeares moe then twenty:

Note well the cause of my decay and fall,

And make a myrour for magistrates all.[698]

3.

In theyr moste weale to beware of vnhap,[699]

And not to sleepe in slumbring sickernes,

Whilst fortune false doth lul them in her lap

Drowned in dreames of brittle blessednesse,

But then to feare her freakes and ficklenesse