To th’end the fraude of fortune may bee knowen,
That eke all princes well[1017] may way the worth
Of thinges, for which the seedes[1018] of warre be sowen:
No state so sure but soone is ouerthrowen:[1019]
No worldly good can counterpeyze the prise
Of halfe the paynes that may thereof arise.
23.
Far[1020] better it were to lose a piece of right,
Than lymmes and life in sousing[1021] for the same:
It is not force of friendship, nor of might,