Till lust were lost through fancy fully fed:

But whan at length I came vnto my minde,

I saw how lewdly lightnes had mee led,

To seeke with payne the perill of my heade:

For had king Henry once beene setled sure,

I was assurde my dayes could not endure.

16.

And therefore, though I bound my selfe with[1185] oth

To help king Henry all that euer[1186] I might,

Yet at the treaty of my brethren both,