Before I came to age Charles had recouered Fraunce,
And kild my men of warre, so happy was his chaunce:
And through a mad contract I made with Raynerd’s daughter
I gaue and lost all Normandy, the cause of many a slaughter.
25.
First of mine vncle Humfrey, abhorring sore this act,
Because I thereby brake a better precontract:
Than of the flattering duke that first the mariage made,
The iust rewarde of such as dare theyr princes ill perswade.
26.