With Glocester dukedome did mee rewarde:

And after in mariage I was prefarde,

To a daughter of Bohun, an earle honourable,

By whome I was of England high constable.

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Thus hoysed so high on fortune’s wheele,[266]

As one on a stage attending a play,

Seeth not on which side the scaffolde doth reele,

Till timbre and poales and all fly away:

So fared it by mee: for day by day,