Nombre of friendes, kinred, or alliaunce,
If wisedome, learning, [or] worldly pollicy,
Mought haue beene stayers to fortune’s variaunce,
None stoode more strong, in worldly countenaunce,
For all these helpes had I to auayle mee,
And yet in fine, all the same did fayle mee.[707]
7.
Of king Henry the fourth,[708] fourth sonne I was,
Brother to Henry, the fift of that name,[709]
And uncle to Henry the sixt,[710] but, alas,