That found the meane duke Humfrey’s bloud to coole,

Whose worthy actes[748] deserue eternall prayse,

Whereby I note that fortune cannot rayse

Any one aloft, without some other’s wracke:

Fluds drowne no fieldes before they finde a bracke.

4.

But as the waters which doe breake the walles

Doe lose their[749] course they had within the shore,

And daily rotting stinke within their stalles,

For faut of mouing which they found before,